Caption

Defective wind turbine, bent rotor blade, in the Bedburg A44n wind farm, in the Garzweiler open-cast mining area, on the A44 motorway, on recultivated lignite mining area, for unknown reasons is a rotor of a Nordex N149/5.7 wind turbine, with a hub height of 164 meters and a total height of 239 meters, an output of 5.7 MW and a rotor diameter of 149 m, bent, the wind turbine is part of a wind farm of a joint venture between the City of Bedburg and RWE Renewables Europe & Australia, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date

Feb 03, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK26B03_398

Model release

NA

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

162,4Mb (3,5Mb) / 20,5in x 30,8in / 6152 x 9228 (300dpi)

Keywords

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