The end of the assembly process has now given way to the procedure of certifying the new turbine with completion expected during the last quarter of 2014. The certification will endorse the platform’s industrialisation and marketing. A single G128-5.0MW turbine will be sufficient to power some 5,000 households and two of them will be able to supply a small town the size of Tudela.
The assembly of the G128-5.0MW platform was facilitated by the use of the latest turbine design and manufacturing technology. Gamesa have now overcome the logistics challenge presented by having to ship the parts from various locations in Spain where they were manufactured. The nacelle and hub come from Tauste (Zaragoza), the powertrain comes from Lerma (Burgos), the generator from Reinosa in Cantabria and the converters from Coslada in Madrid.
The turbine will be deployed for the first time in a commercial wind farm in Salo, Finland, where Gamesa will supply three units of the low temperature model to TuuliWatti this year. The company will also supply operations and maintenance services for this facility for a period of ten years.
The G128-5.0MW has a rotor diameter of 128 meters and a total height of 184 metres. The turbine is lightweight which reduces the cost of related civil engineering work and its modular and redundant design is aimed at ensuring reliability and maximising energy output, thereby lowering costs. At 5MW, the platform will be one of the most powerful turbines in the onshore market.
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