First Enercon at Mühlheide Windpower Museum
Few days ago an Enercon E-16 arrived at the depot of the Mühlheide Windpower Museum. The machine – rated at 55kW with a 16m rotor – stems from Norden/ East Frisia and was one out of five machines that comprised one of the first wind farms in Germany in 1987.

Foto: Chr. Schulz
Even for Enercon the wind farm owned by Stadtwerke Norden (utility) was one of the first bigger orders. The same year five E-16 were placed at a wind farm in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog (Windenergiepark Westküste) and ten units were installed at a wind farm in Nordholz near Cuxhaven.

Foto: A. Jaeger
The E-16 was Enercon’s first commercial success and was produced from 1987 til 1990.

. Foto: Chr. Schulz
Thus, the club managed to save a unit from Enercon’s early beginnings and from a German pioneering wind farm – long before the EEG (energy law) came up and Enercon went into gearless wind turbine production.
Mühlheide Windpower Museum is keen on saving further wind turbine types made by Enercon.