Enercon

The company Enercon is German leader in the wind manufacture of S, it sits at Aurich in Lower Saxony. The company was founded in 1984 by Aloys Wobben and employs today more than 8.000 people, for a turnover of 1,2 Billion euros. This company has approximately 40% of the patents in the field of the wind one. The world market share of Enercon reached in 2004 15,8%, which positions it in third position behind Danish Vestas with 34,1% and Spanish Gamesa with 18,1%, and right in front of American GE Wind with 11,3%.

Type of wind mill

E-12

  • 5 units were built
  • nominal Nominal output of 30 kw
  • Without multiplier
  • Produit between 1997 and 2000

E-15/E-16

  • 46 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 55 kw

E-17/E-18

  • 158 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 80 kw

E-20

  • Protoype built in 2006
  • nominal Nominal output of 100 kw

E-32/E-33

  • 186 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 300 kw

E-30

  • 575 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 300 kw (or 230 kw for oldest)

E-33

  • 5 units built
  • nominal Nominal output 600 kw
  • left on market in 1998

E-40

  • more than 4.135 built units
    • E-40/5.40 Diameter of the rotor 40 m, nominal Nominal output 500 kw
    • E-40/6.44 Diameter of the 44 m, nominal Nominal output 600 kw

E-44/E-48/E-53

  • 68 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 800 kw
  • E48/E44: exit in 2002

E-58

  • 200 built units
  • nominal Nominal output 1 MW

E-66

  • more than 2500 built units
  • official designations:
    • E-66/15.66 diameter 66 m, power 1,5 MW
    • E-66/18.70 diameter 70 m, power 1,8 MW
    • E-66/20.70 diameter 70 m, power 2,0 MW

E-70

  • 516 units built at December 31st, 2005 (including 290 in Germany)
  • nominal Nominal output: 2,3 MW
  • Diameter of the rotor: 70 m
  • Surface of the rotor: 3959 m ²
  • Number of revolutions of the generator: 6 - 21,5 turns per minutes
  • left in 2005

E-82

  • Marketing in summer 2006
  • nominal Nominal output 2 MW
  • Diameter 82 m

E-112

The E-112 is the wind most powerful in the world, with a nominal nominal output of 6 MW. The machine installed with Magdeburg has a rotor 114 m in diameter and a 125 m height mast. 8 units are currently installed.

Industrial espionage at Enercon

The Enercon company was pirated in 1994 by NSA thanks to the network Echelon within the framework of an operation of industrial espionage. (see - Newspaper Die Zeit - 40/1999 " Boar unter Freunden" ; Report/ratio of the European Parliament A5-0264/2001, page 104)

External bonds

  • www.enercon.de Official site of Enercon
  • www.windmesse.de Wind mill of 6 MW in Cuxhaven

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