Hamburg Energie, the city`s municipal green electricity supplier, in partnership with ArcelorMittal Hamburg, has set up three new wind turbines, each with a capacity of 3 MW, on the steelmaker`s site. The turbines, connected to the grid, increase the amount of renewable energy Hamburg generates and consolidates its position as Germany`s wind capital. The three wind turbines tower about 180 meters into the sky, the height of an average 54 storey building. With an equally impressive rotor diameter of about 117 meters, each one harvests more than 10,700 square meters of wind - that`s about one and a half football fields. The three plants produce a good 23 GWh a year, which would meet the...
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