Nordex has produced a pair of 3.6MW turbines designed to gather a 12% higher yield from low and moderate wind-speed sites.
The German manufacturer will take the wraps off the new N117/3600 and N131/3600 at the Windenergy Hamburg trade fair in September.
Prototypes will be installed before the end of this year with series ramp-up scheduled for summer 2017.
Nordex said the new Generation Delta hardware has the lowest noise emissions of its class and “set new standards for the economical production of wind energy at moderate and light-wind sites”.
“By 2018 we at Nordex want to reduce the cost of energy by 18%. These two turbines represent a major step in this direction as ultimately they make wind-generated electricity more profitable,” said chief executive Lars Bondo Krogsgaard.
Towers for the N131 will be up to 112 metres and, for Scandinavia, up to 134 metres. The N117 towers will be up to 141 metres.
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