“We are in talks with Areva and municipalities about the implementation of such a project,” an Energiekontor official told Recharge.
“But those are preliminary, no decision has been taken yet.”
Areva, which manufactures turbine blades in nearby Stade, had no comment on the matter.
Areva’s 8MW model on the drawing-board has a rotor diameter approaching 190 metres, with 90-metre-long blades powering a medium-speed geared drive-train, and permanent magnet generator concept "extrapolated" from the technologies used on its 5MW M5000 series machines.
