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Heliatek Solar Films Generate Green Energy for a Wind Turbine

The 120 solar films cover approximately 173 square meters of the tower and generate a total power of 9.36 kWp.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Heliatek announced the realization of the world-wide first OPV installation on a wind turbine. The “hybridization” of a wind turbine with solar technology was a research field for years and has now become reality with this demonstrator project.   The system has been installed on one of the turbines towers of the Breña Wind Farm in Albacete, Spain, which ACCIONA owns and operates. The turbine is an AW77/1500 of Nordex-ACCIONA Windpower technology, mounted on an 80-metre-high steel tower (hub he...

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