We Could Have 10 MW Wind Turbines by 2011 and 15 MW Turbines by 2020

Photo: Enercon E-126 , currently the biggest wind turbine Winds of Change Wind turbines have been getting bigger and more powerful for a while. It wasn’t that long ago that 1.5-megawatt turbines were considered impressive, but now we have the Enercon E-126 (pictured above and below), currently the biggest wind turbine and able to generate 7 megawatts. But even that isn’t even close to reaching the physical limits of what we can build; The Norwegian company Sway will build a 533-feet, 10-megawatt giant by 2011 (follow… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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We Could Have 10 MW Wind Turbines by 2011 and 15 MW Turbines by 2020

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