Wind turbine blades blow into Port of Indiana

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor welcomed a load of 94 wind turbine blades from Europe on Friday and Saturday.
  

The blades, each measuring 132 feet long, will be used in the first phase of constructing the Meadow Lake wind farm in northwestern Indiana. At full build-out, the 26,000-acre wind farm located between White and Benton counties could have 600 turbines powering more than 250,000 homes. The wind farm is owned by Houston-based Horizon Wind Energy.
  

An earlier shipment of turbine components for the Meadow Lake wind farm arrived at the port on June 1. It contained 30 power generators and 30 turbines hubs, but no blades.

 

(Source: American Shipper)