The regional newspapers Westfalen Blatt and Diepholzer Kreisblatt have reported about the current developments in the German Windpower Museum. The content is mainly about the future cooperation between the club and a Berlin PR agency concerning further professionalization and increase of the degree of fame.
The German Windpower Museum thanks for the reports.
Articles in German only.
The current issue of “Neue Energie” features the German Windpower Association (BWE) supporting the German Windpower Museum in the future.
The club thanks to “Neue Energy” for this article and to BWE for its engagement.
Article in German only.
Dear club members!
Dear wind energy friends!
The society name „Mühlheide Windpower Museum“ is deregistered with direct effect.
All future activities concerning the windpower museum located at Mühlheide will be subject to the name
“German Windpower Museum”.
The renaming was decided within a general club meeting and is related to the national and international approach of the museum.
Site and general targets will stay the same.
For the sake of completeness older articles from the Mühlheide Windpower Museum will remain for people interested.
Right out of the headquarter of Enercon, Aurich, the drivetrain of an Enercon-17, rated at 80kW, has been delivered to Mühlenheide Windpower Museum.
The E-17 is one of Enercon’s first wind turbines of considerable success, since more than 100 units (various versions) of this series (E-17/E-18) were made. Since its market introduction in 1987 this 80kW machine was manufactured until the mid 1990s.
From a pedagogic view this drivetrain proves valuable due to the missing nacelle cover and the possibility to touch it at eye-level. All main components of a modern wind turbine can be spotted directly without a cover standing in the way.
This project required quite some organization carried out by manager Jaeger. Transporting the 5 Tons object was taken over by Mr. Nobbe from Twiehausen, who loves to support the museum.
Mühlenheide Windpower Museum cordially thanks Enercon for this donation!
We would like to give special thanks to the employees for their friendly support and a smooth process!
On the premises of the museum members of Mühlheide Windpower Museum have built an amusement house for the Oppendorf kindergarden. The installation at its final place on the premises of the kindergarden will be carried out by members of the museum on calendar week 28 and 29. Due to the massive weight of the object willingly supporters will be needed. The project was financed by local wind farm operators.
Two days ago the Mühlheide Windpower Museum became one more wind turbine richer. This time one of the first Kukate wind turbines from the early 1980s came in.
These are solid, purely mechanically running turbines in the range up to 10kW which can easily be produced by small enterprises or single persons on their own. The Kukate concept is also applicable for developing countries.
This process was made possible by manager Jaeger who personally managed the transport. The owner, Mr. Droste from Diepenau, is an active member of Mühlheide Windpower Museum and quickly agreed on the transportation of the turbine – after it got wrecked by a storm.
Club chairman Friedrich Bosse and Dr. Jochen Hennig from Deutsche Technikmuseum, Berlin presented the Mühlenheide Windpower Museum on the delegate meeting of BWE (German Windenergy Association) at hannover Fair. In front of approximately 300 invited guests the current achivements and future targets of the society were explained. The lecture got a positive response. In addition several new members were won.
Last Friday Mühlenheide Windpower Museum got a visit from Berlin and the Netherlands. Blessed with good weather Dr. Jochen Hennig from Deutsche Technikmusuem Berlin as well as renowned journalist Eize de Vries from Amersfoort did a tour through the premises of the museum. Various wind turbine types and technical developments as well as a possible future cooperation between the society and the Berlin museum were discussed.Both visitors stressed the meaningof the ever growing collection of wind turbines as well as the necessity for increased attention and support.
The recent issue of Neue Energie features a two-page report about the current developments and future projects of Mühlheide Windpower Museum.
Th society thanks Neue Energie for this report.
Few days ago an Enercon E-16 arrived at the depot of the Mühlheide Windpower Museum. The machine – rated at 55kW with a 16m rotor – stems from Norden/ East Frisia and was one out of five machines that comprised one of the first wind farms in Germany in 1987.
Even for Enercon the wind farm owned by Stadtwerke Norden (utility) was one of the first bigger orders. The same year five E-16 were placed at a wind farm in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog (Windenergiepark Westküste) and ten units were installed at a wind farm in Nordholz near Cuxhaven.
The E-16 was Enercon’s first commercial success and was produced from 1987 til 1990.
Thus, the club managed to save a unit from Enercon’s early beginnings and from a German pioneering wind farm – long before the EEG (energy law) came up and Enercon went into gearless wind turbine production.
Mühlheide Windpower Museum is keen on saving further wind turbine types made by Enercon.
