P.E.I. wind farm brings in special scaffolding to repair turbine blade

22/06/2017
P.E.I. wind farm brings in special scaffolding to repair turbine blade

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If you’re afraid of heights, then clinging to the side of an 80-metre wind turbine tower is likely not the job for you. The Wind Energy Institute of Canada (WEICan) recently discovered it had a problem inside one of the turbine blades at its wind farm in Norway, P.E.I. The turbines – the tallest structures in the area, are tempting targets for lightning strikes. To prevent damage, each blade has a lightning protection cable inside that runs from the tip of . . .

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