How Big Can Wind Turbines Get?

Greentech Media
By info@greentechmedia.comDec 5, 2016, 12:30 pm42 pts
If you think today’s wind turbines are big, then just wait until 2030. By then the median hub height for U.S. onshore turbines will hit 115 meters, 33 meters above the current average. And blade tips will swing higher than the Washington Monument’s 169 meters, according to 163 experts polled in a…

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