What advantages does a modular tower offer?
By incorporating Northstar Wind Towers to support your turbines, you gain tremendous competitive advantages:
• reduced transportation costs
Depending on destination, Northstar Wind Towers can save you 50% to 75% in transportation costs compared to conventional tubular towers.
• reduced raw material costs
Modular technology enables our towers to be built with less steel, lowering material costs significantly.
• larger turbines
With added tower height available, you eliminate a major hindrance to manufacturing larger turbines. Taller towers allow you to take advantage of greater shear values, producing more megawatt hours, and enable developers a faster return on investment.
• bringing marginal wind regions into play
With the ability to incorporate taller towers, your turbines give developers the opportunity to generate energy from areas that otherwise may not have sufficient wind at 80 meters or lower. Again, you offer developers an advantage that few turbine manufacturers can provide.
• faster project delivery
Manufacturing panels as opposed to tubular sections is much faster. Even painting is an automated, in-line process. Once the panels are manufactured, shipping is immediate. No waiting for expensive, specialized transportation and permitting. With developers eager to meet deadlines for tax and project incentives or to beat their own competitors, your ability to deliver completed turbines faster gives you another critical market advantage.