Gicon is building the first of its sky-high turbines 0 The iconic Fernsehturm TV tower in Berlin is the tallest structure in Germany. But sky-high wind turbines could soon surpass it. Dresden-based engineering company Gicon laid the foundation stone for its first one. The site is some 130 kilometers to the south, in Lusatian coal land. Officials declared the innovative high-altitude machine under construction in Schipkau the tallest in the world Envisaged at up to 364 meters to the tip of the blade in a vertical position it would by far beat any wind turbine on land and be just a few meters shorter than Fernsehturm The nacelle will be mounted on a four-legged lattice tower Some global manufacturers do have a bit taller designs and prototypes in the maximum height category they are bottom-fixed offshore wind turbines the rotor of Gicon’s innovative structure The sky-high turbines will be located at another wind park The sites for the new turbines are between the existing ones President and Chief Executive Officer Jochen Grossmann earlier said the high-altitude turbines don’t take away the wind from the machines below The Gicon turbine is expected to generate two times more power with the same swept area Grossmann has compared it to the conditions at offshore facilities but with lower construction and maintenance costs when the first new turbine is commissioned next year the hybrid facility would produce electricity on three floors part of one of the country’s coal hubs Klettwitz is therefore a unique experiment in the energy transition Conversely, energy giant RWE prompted outrage two years ago for dismantling a wind park and the village of Lützerath, among others to expand its Garzweiler coal mine in North Rhine-Westphalia Gicon used a 300-meter high wind measurement mast which it called the tallest in the world It has just reassembled the structure at another wind power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia The company has said that it sees great potential in abandoned open cast mines Gicon particularly counts on Bavaria in its ambition to build 1,000 sky-high turbines by 2030 some locals in the Schipkau area and environmentalists have warned that higher and more powerful turbines kill more bats and birds Be the first one to comment on this article 02 May 2025 - The project is located in Constanța county recognized for its superior yields in green energy production 02 May 2025 - The Sunčana (Sunny) Vipava project envisages installing solar power plants with a combined capacity of 20 MW 30 April 2025 - OMV put into operation its 10 MW green hydrogen plant at the Schwechat refinery 30 April 2025 - It is the second time this year that MVM contracted gas-fueled and hydrogen-ready power plants at sites of former fossil fuel facilities © CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 2008-2020 website developed by ogitive You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience GP Joule and Trina Solar have finished building a 170 MW solar project on a former lignite opencast mine in Brandenburg Almost 9.5 TWh of solar power were fed into the public grid in July more than in June 2024 and 24% higher than in July 2023 From pv magazine Germany Trina Solar and German developer GP Joule have finished building a 170 MW solar plant on a former lignite opencast mine in Klettwitz The first 90 MW section of the plant has been operational since May 2022 The project is part of the Lausitz energy park which is one of the largest ground-mounted PV facilities in Germany is one of the largest brownfield sites in Europe and is highly contaminated “When it comes to reallocating and rehabilitating former brownsites solar plants on conversion sites are an absolute must,” said Gonzalo de la Viña “Our Vertex modules provide many benefits to any country or municipality looking to convert a contaminated brownsite Trina Solar has reached new levels of enabling environmental rehabilitation.” GP Joule said that it wanted to complete the rest of the Lausitz Energy Park by the fall It said that the solar power would be partly used to produce green hydrogen More articles from Roland Ernst Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value" This website uses cookies to anonymously count visitor numbers. View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close In front of more than 100 invited guests from politics and business the founder of the engineering service provider GICON ®  symbolically cut the ribbons of eight balloons The location of the world's highest wind measuring mast on the Klettwitz hill is ideal for research due to the adjacent wind farm the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection emphasized the pioneering role of the region in the energy transition "Lusatia is an energy region and is about to transition into the age of renewables With research into high-altitude wind turbines we will be able to realize wind farms more efficiently in the future with higher utilization and at the same time using less land This helps with the goal of 80 percent renewables by 2030 and with the question of Energy independence The expansion of renewable energies and the development of a hydrogen economy will secure highly qualified jobs in the region's energy sector." the wind measuring mast will record not only wind speed which convert the ultrasonic sounds of the animals into audible sounds Environment and Agriculture of the Free State of Saxony Gerd Lippold emphasized the performance of the Saxony-based GICON® Group for the current transformation process “The project shows how great the potential for increasing wind energy yields still is I am particularly pleased that the company from Saxony can make a contribution to climate protection with its engineering services in order to develop this potential It is also a symbol of the successful transformation of the region when after the largest overburden conveyor bridge the world's highest wind measurement mast now goes into operation." GICON ® -Großmann Ingenieur Consult GmbH implemented the project from planning to commissioning completely from a single source the energy transition and for us as a company My thanks go to the entire project team,” said GICON ®-Founder Prof The focus of the GICON ® order is not only wind measurements up to a height of 300 meters which carry out the measurements from the ground and are calibrated with the met mast The LiDAR system uses radar waves to optically measure distance and speed high-altitude wind measurements can be carried out much more easily in the future and measurement times with wind measurement masts can be significantly reduced or even eliminated altogether The wind measurement mast and measurement campaign project has a total volume of approx 2.8 million euros and was commissioned by beventum GmbH "The world's tallest wind measuring mast is our first step towards developing the high-altitude wind which should be followed as soon as possible by prototypes for high-altitude wind turbines in the future it will be possible to generate electricity from high-altitude wind turbines anywhere at acceptable prices.”   High-altitude wind turbines are about twice as high as previous wind turbines and are intended to use the significantly more productive winds at high altitudes Yields in the range of twice that of conventional wind turbines are expected the high-altitude wind turbines can be integrated into existing wind farms as a second level This means that you can achieve a significantly higher energy yield on the same area and produce more wind power much faster "In addition to the possibility of a rapid expansion of wind energy through a second level in existing wind farms," says Dr "there are special opportunities in the subsequent use of the opencast mining regions and in the future also in the local generation of wind power using solitary high-altitude wind turbines." Schipkau's Mayor Klaus Prietzel campaigned for the project and is aware of the importance for his community "A project like this is also an example for other communities that the further development of innovative technologies for the use of renewable energies is worthwhile Our goal is not only to lay the foundation for a high-altitude wind tower but also to use the green energy generated here regionally It is precisely for this regional use and thus value creation that we want to further develop the wind farm.” A camera at a height of 220 meters is located at the top of the mast for a view from a world record height. Visitors to the Hochkippe and those interested can now also view pictures from the record height online. The camera, which creates a 360-degree image every ten minutes, can be reached via the LINK: https://www.gicon.de/windmessmast  Nevertheless, a German company has said that masts must get even bigger and announced it plans to build the world’s tallest wind turbines, after research found their energy yield will be twice as high as a standard turbine. The proposed turbine would tower 300 metres to the rotor hub and 365m to the top of the blade — surpassing the height of London’s Shard skyscraper, which at 310m is the tallest in Britain. The demonstration tower measures wind speed, air pressure, precipitation — and even the calls of batsSEAN GALLUP/GETTYData gathered over the past year from a 300m-tall test mast constructed at Schipkau in the state of Brandenburg south of Berlin confirmed that the wind blows more constantly at that Porsche may be considering building its large battery cell factory in Brandenburg rumors had circulated that Porsche might plan a move to North America due to subsidies and energy prices there are now also considerations to look into a location in the Lausitz region According to a report in the “Lausitzer Rundschau” newspaper based on insiders from local and state politics as well as the business community “a prominent player in the automotive industry” is showing great interest in a site on the Schwarzheide/Schipkau airfield in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz According to the newspaper’s research it appears to be Porsche and its majority-owned battery subsidiary Cellforce Porsche neither confirmed nor denied the rumors when asked In addition to the factory currently under construction in Reutlingen the possibility of expanding to over 20 gigawatt-hours at a second site is also being examined The final decision is expected to be made by the end of 2023 Source:https://www.lr-online.de/lausitz/senftenberg/porsche-in-schwarzheide-autobauer-bald-mit-gigafabrik-fuer-batterien-in-der-lausitz_-70882595.html Battery News © 2023 | Imprint | Privacy Policy