July 22, 2008
Germany, Safety

Incidents and images of damage to wind energy converters

Alt, Helmut

“According to estimates by the German insurance association, GDV, a total of € 30 million were paid in premiums for insuring the wind machines compared to almost € 45 million paid in damages for plant outages (this corresponds to around 0.3 ct/kWh).”

From “The economics of wind energy within the generation mix” (“Energiewirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Windenergie im Stromerzeugungsmix”) [click to download] [1]


URL to article:  https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/incidents-and-images-of-damage-to-wind-energy-converters/


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[1] “The economics of wind energy within the generation mix” (“Energiewirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Windenergie im Stromerzeugungsmix”) [click to download]: https://docs.wind-watch.org/Alt-EconomicsofWindEnergy.pdf