Russia's Azov Wind Farm Is Taking Shape

Enel Green Power has announced that a first batch of towers - over a total of 26 turbines - has arrived at the construction site of the Azov wind farm in Russia. Each tower consists of three sections to be assembled on-site. The largest is 30 meters long, weighing 79 tonnes for a combined weight from three sections reaching almost 200 tonnes. The journey from the Taganrog terminal to the construction site took 12 hours.

Traveling by land and sea on a month-long journey, the first nacelle and a rotor joined the towers in the construction site, as five more nacelles and eight rotors will soon be part of this impressive endeavor since the total weight of the payload reached over 720 tonnes (one nacelle weighs 68 tonnes and a rotor about 35 tonnes).

Special access roads that could withstand such a heavy load had to be built from scratch as a way to guarantee the utmost safety of the oversize load.