Druiberg wind farm

Druiberg wind farm
	location
	Saxony-Anhalt , Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 59 '23 " N , 10 ° 50' 0" E Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '23 " N , 10 ° 50' 0" E
country	Federal Republic of Germany
	Data
Type	Onshore wind farm
Primary energy	Wind energy
power	134.5 MW (electric)
owner	Energiepark Druiberg GmbH
operator	Wind farm Druiberg GmbH & Co. KG
Start of operations	1993
turbine	30 × Enercon E-70; 1 × Enercon E-112; 30 × Enercon E-66; 2 × Enercon E-92; 1 × Enercon E-53 ; 1 × Enercon E-115
was standing	August 2018

The Druiberg wind farm is a wind farm near Dardesheim , a district of Osterwieck in Saxony-Anhalt . The small town in the Harz district , which was independent until 2003, describes itself as the town of renewable energies . A total of 35 wind turbines generate up to 40 times as much electrical energy as can be consumed on site. The wind farm also became known nationwide through the construction of what was then the world's most powerful wind turbine, the Enercon E-112, which produces 6 megawatts of electricity under ideal weather conditions. Gradually, the Enercon E-70 was added. In 2016, an Enercon E-53 and an Enercon E-115 were installed in the course of repowering . Since the end of 2016, this wind farm has only consisted of Enercon systems. The old Micon systems have now also been dismantled.

technology

The Druiberg wind farm currently largely consists of Enercon E-70 wind turbines (30 units in total) with a hub height of 114 m, a rotor diameter of 70 m and a nominal output of 2 MW . The largest and most powerful system in the wind farm is an Enercon E-112 with a hub height of 125 m, a rotor diameter of 114 m and a nominal output of 6 MW.

Original condition

The first wind turbines on the Druiberg (dismantled in 2013) were two-blade rotor systems of the types Lagerwey LW30 / 250 (hub height 39 m, rotor diameter 30 m, nominal output 250 kW, 3 units) and Lagerwey LW18 / 80 (hub height 40 m, rotor diameter 18 m, Nominal power 80 kW, 1 copy).

history

At the time of the Cold War there was a radar station of the Soviet Army on the Druiberg northeast of Dardesheim, around 7 km from the then inner-German border .

In 1991 a resident of Dardesheim started planning his own wind turbine near his home on his own initiative. This two-winged system from the Dutch manufacturing company Lagerwey was completed at the end of 1993 and at that time was the second grid-feeding wind turbine in Saxony-Anhalt and the first in what was then the district of Halberstadt . In 1995, three systems from the same manufacturer were built by Windstrom Prignitz GmbH & Co. KG , albeit with a higher nominal output . These first four plants already generated more electricity on average than the 970-inhabitant city of Dardesheim consumed.

In 2000, the Windpark Druiberg GmbH & Co. KG was founded as an operating company after the 380 hectare hilly area between Dardesheim and the neighboring municipality of Badersleben, which was still independent at the time , had been designated as a suitable area for the use of wind energy . In 2001 the building permit was issued for an initial 20 wind turbines with a nominal output of 750 kW each. In the following year, Windpark Druiberg GmbH decided to change these plans. Up to 35 2 MW turbines from Enercon were to be built . The groundbreaking ceremony for the new wind farm took place on November 27, 2002.

Between January 2004 and July 2006, all planned Enercon E-70 systems were built and put into operation one after the other. In autumn 2005, construction work began on a copy of what was then the most powerful wind turbine in the world, an Enercon E-112. This was also one of only two plants of this type that had been increased to an output of 6 MW. In terms of output, the system was only exceeded in 2010 by an Enercon E-126 with a nominal output of 7.5 MW next to the Enercon plant in Magdeburg-Rothensee . The inauguration of the Enercon E-112 on the Druiberg took place on November 3, 2006 by the then Saxony-Anhalt Minister of Economic Affairs and today's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff .

The wind farm extends beyond the district of Dardesheim to the area of Badersleben (since 2005 part of the municipality of Huy ). Even during the expansion work, it developed into a nationally and internationally recognized pilot project. An information center was set up for visitors on the site of the former Soviet radar station and an open-air stage was set up in 2009, which can also be used for cultural events. Since 2003, the operating company has also published the Dardesheimer Windblatt , which is published in the city and in neighboring communities .

Since 2005, Windpark Druiberg GmbH has also operated a number of photovoltaic systems on communal and private roof areas in Dardesheim through its subsidiary Nordharz Solar GmbH & Co.KG. From 2009 to 2013, the Druiberg wind farm was integrated into the Harz regenerative model region project through the E-Energy funding program launched by the Federal Ministries for Economics and Technology and the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety . As part of this, a virtual power plant was tested in the region .

In 2010, two more 2 MW Enercon plants were built and put into operation. The total nominal output of the Druiberg wind farm has been 66 MW since then. In the early summer of 2013, after almost two decades of operation, the four Lagerwey two-winged aircraft from the early years of the wind farm were dismantled. They are to be replaced by new systems as part of repowering .

Web links

Commons : Windpark Druiberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Energiepark Druiberg GmbH

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

Druiberg wind farm

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technology

Original condition

history