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Wind Power for the World
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Wind Power for the World

by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
June 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
676 pages
20h 39m
English
CRC Press
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this issue, the EC issued a study which was carried out by Bob
Harrison, Erich Hau and my colleague Herman Snel. The report
“Large Wind Turbines” [2],
published as a book by Wiley, showed
that there was no strict physical limit to the maximum size of
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higher strength-to-weight ratio are being applied.
Table 2.1 First European large wind turbine development and testing
programs
Wind turbine (Country)
Rotor
diameter
[m]
Rated
power
[MW]
Year of
first
rotation
Commercial
follow-up
European Program WEGA I
Tjaereborg (Esbjerg, DK) 61 2 1989 
Richborough (UK) 55 ...
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