A lattice tower on a former Lusatian coal field will carry its nacelle to 984 feet by jacking the whole machine up through itself, and the turbine on top of it is an ordinary 3.8 megawatt unit

Flat reclaimed ground in eastern Germany, the floor of a lignite region that stopped digging. Out of it rises a steel lattice frame that looks more like a radio mast than a wind turbine. It has stood at about 548 feet for months, finished as steel and going no higher. The nacelle and the blades ... Read more