The Cámera wind farm is located between the towns of Teba and Almargen in the province of Malaga near Cerro de La Higuera. Contrary to some local media reports, the turbine is not the G136 model from the same G10X family, but is actually the G128 model with a rotor diameter of 128 metres (not 136 metres) and a hub height of 120 metres. The machine is designed for sites with Class II, medium-speed wind regimes. The wind farm is being developed by Gamesa Energía, a subsidiary that develops and builds wind farms for resale.
Jaulín
To date, the only example of the G10X machine in operation has been a prototype on the Jaulín wind farm in Aragon, "which has already been subject to field testing and certification," explains the Spanish multinational. Moreover, this machine has broken three output records for any wind turbines in Spain, the company claims, most of which were surpassed when the machine generated more than 98 MWh in a single day on 1 June 2011.
The Spanish company is also close to completing several manufacturing facilities in the north of country, namely: the Aoiz blade factory (Navarre), the Lerma (Burgos) and Asteasu (Basque Country) powertrain plants, the Tauste nacelle plant (Saragossa), and the generator plant in Cantabria. According to Gamesa, all these facilities will be fully operational in 2012. In addition, Gamesa is installing another G10X machine at the pilot Alaiz wind farm, owned by the National Renewable Energy Center (Cener).
Alaiz
Gamesa has informed Renewable Energy Magazine that the G10X machine installed in Alaiz fulfilled the company’s expectations with regards to transportation, since its modular design has enabled the company to use the same vehicles used to transport 2-MW turbines. The blades, which measure 62.5 metres, can also be transported using conventional equipment because of their segmented design.
The Gamesa FlexiFit system also enables the main internal components of the wind turbine to be lifted in to place using a crane attached directly to the nacelle.
As reported previously, the technologies that have been tested and validated on Gamesa’s 4.5-MW G10X platform are being used on the 5-MW G11X and the 7-MW G14X offshore platforms that the wind turbine manufacturer is currently developing at its technology centres in Virginia (US) and Glasgow (Scotland).
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