Green Blog » Näsudden http://www.green-blog.org Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:54:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The demolition of a record-holder http://www.green-blog.org/2008/06/06/the-demolition-of-a-record-holder/ http://www.green-blog.org/2008/06/06/the-demolition-of-a-record-holder/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:59:19 +0000 Simon Leufstedt http://green-blog.org/?p=418 Continue reading →]]> Yesterday the 15 year old Swedish wind power station Matilda was demolished. Matilda wasn’t an ordinary wind turbine. She was a record-holder.

Since she was constructed 15 years ago on Gotland she has supplied 15000 homes with electricity. Her wind turbines rotated for 61.469 hours and she produced a total of 61,4 GWh. That is more renewable energy than any other single power plant has ever produced.

Näsudden on Gotland, which was Matilda’s home until yesterday, is the area that has the most wind power plants in Sweden. Näsudden also has a long tradition and experience of electricity production, research and development for the wind power business. Matilda was the first wind turbine and she helped pave the way for large-scale constructions of wind power plants around Sweden.

Matilda will now be replaced with a newer and more modern wind power station.

Below is a video showing the demolition of Matilda:

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