The new turbine has a substantially larger rotor with blades measuring 64.4 metres in length that produce a 26% increase in the rotor sweep area when compared to the company’s best-selling N117/2400 model.

That will push up nominal power by 25%, Nordex says.

“A larger swept area is giving us a stronger footprint in low wind areas,” Jörg Scholle, Nordex’s head of engineering told a press conference.

“That