Turbine maker Alstom’s first 6MW Haliade 150 — the mightiest machine in the water, with 73.5-metre blades and a rotor sweep of almost 18,000 square metres — was supposed to be spinning at the Belwind 2 development off Belgium by the end of 2012. But weather window after weather window was slammed shut by storms roaring through the English Channel during the intervening 12 months, and the turbine was only finally assembled this past November.
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