RE: Last week's quiz26 Apr 2024 21:19
We had years ago Drew Blaxland rolling his eyes at running a hydraulic pitch adjustment mechanism rather than the eventual electric one.
We had every turbine with its own cabling because the subsea cable wasn't around.
Every turbine on gravity foundations and now moving to monopole.
Going from 1.5MW to 3MW turbine size is definitely a big question, but overall Meygen should be seen as a probably very successful R&D project in turbulent economic and political times that were hard to control for. It makes very little sense to expect a new technology to be immediately successful with only the first 4 examples of that technology in the water. Lots of sub-ideal circumstances not least of all share price but no reason not to believe that they didn't start out needing to learn pretty much everything, and as has been pointed out, SAE probably have done quite a lot of learning invaluable to the company and the sector.