Gamesa installs first prototype offshore wind turbine in Spain

Madrid, Spain - Gamesa completed assembly of the main parts (tower, nacelle and blades) of Spain

Installation of the tower, nacelle and the three blades, which were shipped from Bilbao port to the Canaries, began in the middle of April with the tower assembly work. The tower measures 90 metres in total and is made by Windar (a joint venture between Gamesa and Daniel Alonso).

The nacelle, made in Tauste (Zaragoza), measures over 12.5 metres long and is 4 metres tall and wide. It weighs 72 tonnes. Once the nacelle was hoisted onto the tower, work began to assemble the three blades, each of which measures 62.5 metres long and weighs 15 tonnes, making them the longest blades ever produced and transported in Spain. This work finished this morning.

Gamesa will now begin the turbine

Source: IWR Online, 28 May 2013