Tag: wind farm projects

  • Wind Energy in Chile

    After my trip to Uruguay I’ve had the pleasure of visiting Chile, another promising destination in South America. The country enjoys a high GDP growth, with controlled inflation and a stable regulatory framework, and it’s a place where several big players are betting. We are ending the construction of Talinay, a 90 MW EPC wind…

  • Wind farm internal roads bends additional widening

    One of the problems frequently found in wind farm project and construction is that road bends with a reduced radius often needs an additional widening to allow the passage of the trucks with the WTGs components. Normally the biggest problems come with the blades. I suggest using a commercial software such as AutoTURN to estimate…

  • Wind farm civil works projects: typical errors

    Here you have my collection of errors I frequently see when I check wind farm project developed by external companies. Being a quite peculiar sector is no surprise that I normally found several mistakes: here you have the most commons.   Error #1: two levels crane pad / foundation area designed without considering the slopes…