Lichtenegg wind power station
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 36 '31 " N , 16 ° 12' 13" E | ||
| country | Austria | ||
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| Type | Wind turbine | ||
| Primary energy | Wind energy | ||
| power | 1.8 MW | ||
| operator | Bucklige Welt Wind Wicon Engineering GmbH & Co KG (BWW) | ||
| Start of operations | 2003 | ||
The Lichtenegg wind power plant , sometimes also called Pesendorf wind power plant , is a wind power plant with an integrated viewing platform on the Pesendorfer Höhe ( 800 m above sea level ), a ridge of the Bucklige Welt near Pesendorf, a town in the Lichtenegg municipality in Lower Austria .
Wind turbine
The Enercon E-66 wind power plant with a hub height of 65 m, a rotor diameter of 70 m and an installed capacity of 1.8 megawatts was built in 2003. The operator is Bucklige Welt Wind Wicon Engineering GmbH & Co KG (BWW) . The electricity generated is fed into the network of Energieversorgung Niederösterreich (EVN). In cooperation with BWW, ÖGUT and the municipality of Lichtenegg, EVN has been operating an "adventure park" on the subject of renewable energies since 2010 with ten different small wind turbines, a photovoltaic system and an energy store.
Viewing pulpit
What is particularly unusual about the wind turbine is the viewing platform, which is installed at a height of 60 meters, directly below the nacelle, on the tower of the wind turbine. There are fewer than a dozen such plants worldwide, two of them in Austria.
From the all-round glazed viewing platform, which can be reached via a spiral staircase with 300 steps inside the tower, you have a view of the surrounding Bucklige Welt with the change in the south and the Schneeberg in the west. When the weather is good, the view extends to Wiener Neustadt in the north and to Lake Neusiedl in the east .
The visitor's pulpit is regularly open to visitors on weekends in the summer months, and guided tours out of sequence are also possible by prior arrangement. For safety reasons, access is restricted for small children.
On May 19, 2019, Rainer Predl ran a marathon here - for the first time in the world in a wind power plant - with 3,125 13.5 m laps in the glazed pulpit.
In the wake of the corona pandemic , a show took place on the Day of the Wind on June 15, 2020 without an audience present. Acrobatics artist Stefanie Millinger from Salzburg made a one-armed handstand performance on a wind turbine blade.
Web links
- Lichtenegg wind power station. Panoramio , accessed July 22, 2011 .
- Lichtenegg municipality: wind turbine with viewing platform and adventure mill. (PDF; 114 kB) Habitats, accessed on July 22, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c About Lichtenegg> Sights> Windrad. Lichtenegg municipality, accessed on July 22, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Hunchback World Wind. Internet presence of the operating company. Retrieved July 22, 2011 .
- ↑ EVN Energietechnologie: Small wind power. Energy supply Lower Austria , accessed on July 22, 2011 .
- ↑ The NEA “Windfang” visitor wind turbine. Information on a similar system near Aachen in Germany. NEA Neue Energie non-profit GmbH, accessed on July 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Wind turbine tours. Interest group for wind power Austria, accessed on July 22, 2011 .
- ↑ Successful world record: extreme athlete Rainer Predl manages wind turbine marathon noen.at, May 20, 2019, accessed May 23, 2019.
- ↑ The artist did gymnastics on a 65 meter high wind turbine orf.at, June 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020.