On the road to COP15!

Over the weekend, the world's longest wind turbine blade undertook a journey across islands and bridges from small-town Lunderskov to Danish capital Copenhagen. The journey ended up at a location which will attract the attention of millions of people during the crucial days of negotiation for our climate's future. The 61.5 meter long blade will greet the world's leaders at the COP15 conference in December.

See the impressive 61.5 meter long blade on its way to COP15 in Copenhagen!

Wind power works! That is one of the strong arguments from the wind industry at the COP15 conference in December, symbolized by the physical presence of the world's longest wind turbine blade in serial production, the LM 61.5 P from LM Glasfiber.

The blade is a demonstrable and clear evidence of the intensive development that has taken place within the wind industry. Just 25 years ago, the largest wind turbines had blades with a rotor diameter of 15 meters and were only capable of producing 50 kW of electricity. Today, the largest mass-produced wind turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters, sweeps the near-equivalent of two football pitches and has a nominal output of 5 MW - enough to power 5,000 European households.

The blade left LM Glasfiber's plant in Lunderskov early Friday heading for its journey towards Copenhagen. Here it was installed at the main entrance at the Bella Center as part of the Wind Power Works Campaign in collaboration with GWEC, the Global Wind Energy Council and Vindmølleindustrien, the Danish wind industry association.

Click here to see the video and photos of the blade passing through Denmark.

You can read more about the Wind Power Works Campaign at http://www.windpowerworks.net

Further information:

LM Glasfiber
Helle Andersen, tel.: +45 5138 8369
Senior Manager, Communication

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Facts about the blade
The LM 61.5 P blade was developed as a prototype already in 2004 as the result of several years of intensive research in materials, design and production processes. Today, the 18.8t blade is mass-produced by LM Glasfiber's factory in Lunderskov, near Kolding in Denmark.

During the development, the blade was submitted to thorough testing. Throughout a full year of tests, the blade was exposed to extreme loads and bending to ensure that the blade can withstand 20 years of normal wear and tear in rough and windy conditions.

The blade is developed mainly for offshore projects and is installed in wind farms off the coast of Germany, Scotland and Belgium. In a twenty-year lifetime, a 5 MW wind turbine installed with these blades can help save CO2 emissions corresponding to 180,000 tons.

The blade was awarded the Product Prize 2007 by the Confederation of Danish Industries.