The Areva test bench in Bremerhaven
The company expects shipments to begin from the German North Sea port by year-end.
The €15m ($18.7m) test bench was brought on line in November. Originally built to double-check the M5000-116 machines that had to be changed out at the Alpha Ventus offshore project in 2010 after failures in sliding bearings caused overheating, it was then set up to test all M5000s being manufactured for future projects.
The investment has proved prescient. As well as the turbines for the 400MW Global Tech 1 order, the 40 being delivered this year for Trianel’s
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