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ENERCON GmbH - The World's Largest Wind Turbine Produces 7+ Megawatts

Submitted by james on 05/04/2009
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The World's Largest Wind Turbine Produces 7+ Megawatts
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http://www.enercon.de/en/_home.htm

The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, enough 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.

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The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, 12 months, that’s 11,256 kwh per year per house. That’s 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.

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<p>ENERCON WINDTURBINES <br />
Dreekamp 5 &middot; 26605 Aurich &middot; Germany <br />
Phone +4949419270 <br />
vertrieb@enercon.de</p>
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