Wind turbines in Ellensburg, WA
From the
Ellensburg Daily Record:
Wind topples turbine in Ellensburg; minor flooding of Mercer Creek
A wind turbine at the city of Ellensburg�s Renewable Energy Park toppled over on Monday, buckling under wind speeds of more than 30 mph and gusts as high as 45 mph.
Gary Nystedt, city resource manager, said city staff will start going through the turbine�s wind speed data to figure out exactly when it came down.
He said the city will meet with Bellevue contractor Burke Electric � which installed several of the towers at the park, including the toppled Tangerie Alternative Power 10 kW system � to determine what the city�s next steps will be.
45MPH is not a high wind by any means -- we regularly get gusts to 60MPH here at the farm. For a tower to collapse in a public park is a big failure on someone's part.
Ellensburg is one of my favorite small towns in Washington -- college town set in some nice rural farming country. Best of both worlds...
Posted by DaveH at May 1, 2013 7:32 PM