A wind turbine standing 365 metres from foundation to blade tip has reached its full height at Schipkau in Brandenburg, making it the tallest in the world, Euronews reports, citing AFP.
Built by the engineering firm GICON with funding from Germany’s federal agency for breakthrough innovation, SPRIND, the turbine sits in Lusatia, a region long known for coal mining. Its hub is 300 metres up, where winds blow stronger and more steadily, and it is expected to generate roughly twice the electricity of a conventional turbine – enough for about 7,500 households a year.
It is only a few metres shorter than Berlin’s television tower, and is due to be connected to the grid in November. Engineers see it as a pilot for “second-storey” wind farms, which could add tall turbines above existing ones and open up less windy parts of Europe to wind power.
Source: Euronews