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FACTS AND FIGURES ON WIND TURBINES:
- Wind turbines generate clean energy with minimal environmental impact, helping to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and combat climate change.
- Many countries have started to invest heavily on Wind Turbines because of its benefits
- Wind Turbines are expensive assets and thererfore, fire incidents within the Wind Turbine could cause damages up to €2 million
- Wind Turbines are often prone to catch fire due to electrical failures or mechanical malfunctions. Other risk are brakes high temperatures and lightning strikes
- 90 % of Wind Turbine fires originate in the nacelle
- Direct access to fire is difficult
- Wind Turbines are hard and costly to repair, leading to long downtimes
SOLUTIONS TO PREVENT FIRE IN WIND TURBINES:
- Unique configurations and special technologies
- Early and automatic fire detection to stop the fire before causing irreversible damages
- Fast and effective fire suppression
