Month: December 2017
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Characteristics of wind turbine blades
The most elegant element of the wind turbine is, at least for me, the blade. Blades are currently reaching incredible lengths (onshore we are almost at 70 meters, offshore they can be even bigger) and, as I discussed in this post, can be made of several materials. The cheap solution is fibreglass, more heavy, while…
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The gentle art of EPC wind farms: design responsibility
In the ideal FIDIC world there is little space for the discussion about design responsibility. Either the Employer (FIDIC Red) or the Contractor (FIDIC yellow & silver) is going to do all (or almost all) the design. Unsurprisingly, real life is more complicate than this. You will have an hard time trying to get reasonable…