09/10/2019

GE Report: Building the World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade

F.l.t.r.: LM Wind Power’s Erwan Le Floch, Sarah Ruffenach, Lukasz Cejrowski, and Anderson Pinho (Image: Tomas Kellner for GE Reports)

A GE Report from the factory of LM Wind Power in Cherbourg where the company builds the world's largest wind turbine blades.

Official Press Release GE Reports:

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Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy.

Commissioned by France’s last king, Louis XVI, championed by Napoleon and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, the port was key to opening a direct shipping route for supplies from the U.S. The Germans garrisoned there knew it well — and put up a fierce fight. By the time American and British troops took control of Cherbourg in late June 1944, much of it was wrecked and its harbor mined. It took the Allies more than a month to open the port to convoys of American Liberty ships carrying coal, construction supplies, heavy vehicles, ammunition and... ... More: Official Press Release GE Reports