ENERCON E126 - The World's Largest Capacity Wind Turbine

This is the Enercon E-126, the first wind turbine with 7.58MW rated power, rotor diameter: 126m (413ft), hub height: 135m(450ft). Two of these giant wind power units have been built for testing at an onshore location, Rysumer Nacken, near Emden, in the northwest of Germany.

Here each WPU is expected to produce about 18 Mio kWh per year, enough for more than 4,500 homes.

These turbines are equipped with a number of new features: an optimized blade design with a spoiler extending down to the hub, and a pre-cast concrete base. Due to the elevated hub height and the new blade profile, the performance of the E-126 is expected to by far surpass that of the E-112  (the world’s former  largest wind turbine rated at 6 megawatts).

Source:www.youtube.com, http://www.enercon.de/p/downloads/EN_Produktuebersicht_0710.pdf


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