Exclusive: Inside Siemens Gamesa’s 11MW and 14MW offshore nacelle assembly plant

Siemens Gamesa is busy assembling nacelles for its latest direct-drive 14MW offshore turbine, and its 11MW predecessor, in Cuxhaven on the German North Sea coast. Eize de Vries visits the ‘lean-production’ plant to see the massive turbines and assess large-scale industrialisation and challenges of handling ever bigger and heavier components and sub-assemblies.

by Eize de Vries

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