Overview
- The lattice‑mast 'heights' tower reached its full 365‑metre height on Monday, September 28, and Gicon has scheduled official commissioning for November.
- Gicon built the prototype for the federal innovation agency SPRIND using more than 2,000 tonnes of steel and 22,000 parts and rates the pilot at 3.8 megawatts.
- Engineers assembled turbine components at lower, accessible heights and then raised them into place with an inner telescoping tower because weather delayed the lift operations.
- Gicon says the higher hub (300 m) should tap steadier winds and could roughly double energy yield per rotor diameter while later designs aim for more than 7 MW.
- Experts and trade groups stress this is a feasibility demonstration whose wider rollout depends on measured performance, permitting, undisclosed commercial costs, and market interest.