Tore Wizelius and Ake Frykberg, of ReWind Offshore, came to Cleveland to share their experience of installing the world’s first freshwater wind farm.
The recent visit to Cleveland by two representatives of the Swedish company, ReWind Offshore, which created the world’s first freshwater wind farm, generated much excitement.
In a presentation at Case Western Reserve University on November 26th, Tore Wizelius (the Project Director) and Åke Petterson Frykberg (the CEO), talked about the installation of the ten turbines on Lake Vanern, their plans for a second larger installation, and then they opened up the room to vigorous discussion.
The latter centered not just on the features of this pioneering engineering project, and the new ideas and techniques that it had generated, but it also inevitably led into thoughts about transferring that knowledge into use in Cleveland, on its own large body of fresh water.
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Press release, December 9, 2012; Image: Windustrious