Pictures of giant wind turbine blades being transported via the Danish roads

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

As much as there is increased talks of the effects of wind power, transporting the world’s longest wind turbine blades across Funen and Jutland in Denmark has shown that there are more challenges to get the best out of wind.

Image from Danish Television
The picture above from Danish television shows how tricky it has been to transport the longest turbine blades to the island of Funen and Jutland motorways for further shipment to Scotland. The choice to transport it through Thursday night was to avoid unusually violent road users, which who little interest to overtake. One have to prepare for the probablility that it was going to take some time.

The blades will be transported on heavy load trucks from SSP Technology’s production site in Kirkeby located in the southern part of the island of Funen, Denmark. In the port of Esbjerg on the Danish west coast, the blades will be loaded onto special vessels for the sea transport to the installation site of the Scottish coast.

Yesterday evening the transportation of three wind turbine blades from the company SSP Technology in South Funen commenced in a journey that is quite a large project, both for the producer and for other road users.

Each of the impressive blades weighs more than 30 tons. The root diameter of the blade is only 4,2 meters, ideal to facilitate smooth road transportation. The 7 MW wind turbine equipped with the 3 SSP Technology blades can in just 30 min. produce energy equivalent to the annual energy consumption of an average family. The turbine has a rotor diameter of 171.2 m, wrotes SSP technology in a press release.
by Scancomark.com