Overview
- The Gicon-built pilot reached its final height of 365 meters late last week, with sources reporting the mast hit its record size on Monday, September 28.
- The installation has a 300‑meter hub, a 3.8 MW turbine, and a lattice outer mast made from about 2,000 tonnes of steel and some 22,000 parts that was raised using a patented telescopic hydraulic method because cranes cannot reach that height.
- Gicon and the federal innovation agency SPRIND say the higher hub should produce roughly double the energy of a conventional turbine and could power about 7,500 households if forecasts hold.
- The site is a research pilot financed with federal support (reported build cost about €25 million) and is scheduled for official commissioning in November as operators gather operating and meteorological data.
- Industry groups call the project a feasibility demonstration and say wider rollout will depend on real operational results, permitting, grid capacity and whether the technology can prove an economic case for scale‑up and retrofits.