Wind turbine manufacturer Enercon used its new Tii Scheuerle G4BladeLifter for the first time to transport wind turbine rotor blades in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. It was utilised to transport 68-metre long rotor blades through narrow village streets, across railway crossings, and along winding rural roads to the Olsbrücken wind farm.
The transport of the wind turbine rotor blades was aided by the BladeLifter’s ability to hydraulically raise and tilt rotor blades by up to 60 degrees.
At the Olsbrücken wind farm two new Enercon E-138 EP3 turbines, with a hub height of 160 metres, were being erected. Together with the existing turbines, the wind farm will feed a total capacity of 8.52 megawatts into the grid. The operator is Juwi Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. NaturPower 4 KG, based in Wörrstadt. Commissioning of the new turbines is planned for early November.
“The BladeLifter G4 opens up new possibilities for us in transporting our rotor blades,” said Björn Feddermann, global logistics project manager at Enercon. “Especially with long components and demanding routes, the technology gives us greater flexibility and planning reliability. For us as a team, this first deployment was a real challenge – but both the equipment and the crew mastered it brilliantly.”
Enercon plans to next use its Scheuerle G4 BladeLifter at the Bingen wind farm, near Sigmaringen, on Lake Constance.
