Thursday 26th March, Climbing Wind Turbines

Today I was climbing wind turbines on the moors above Rochdale with colleagues, Alan and Kev, from Heightec in Kendal. When we arrived on site the rain was horizontal and the wind speed very high. Which would limit what we could achieve today. Fortunately late morning the weather cleared to give beautiful blue skies and we were able to climb but not work outside on the roof as wind speed was still too high for safe working. Whilst I was there I managed to get a few images of wind turbines from a new angle for most folks. These machines were over 60m high to the Nacelle and height to blade tips was over 100m. Each machine is capable of producing 2.5MW of power.