Gearboxes removed from 3-year-old wind turbines
Updated: 2023-12-31 21:53:05
Here’s what’s being removed from the duds from the western part of Alliant Energy’s Whispering Willow North windpower facility in Franklin County, Iowa. They have been dropping the blades on one unit after another for the past 2 years. There are 15 units that just sit idle most of the time, and another 10 that are getting serviced. These gearboxes are being removed from the units and dropped by the uplink 350-KV substation. We happened to pull up just as . . .