Drivers on the A-44 are used to seeing huge blades belonging to wind turbines being transported to Motril Port, but the latest ones are even bigger.

The lorries that transport the blades have a hard time moving them the 320 kilometres from the factory in Daimiel near Ciudad Real to the port, especially when there are roadworks, but arrive the do.

Three lorries, each bearing a blade measuring 74 metres in length, reached the port around the beginning of last month, with a huge sigh of relief, no doubt.

During 2018 the company that hauls these loads Consignaciones y Estibas Motril, delivered 908 blades measuring the more usual 62m. You could literally cover every kilometre of the autovia between Granada and the coast with that many blades.

To give an idea just how long that is, a military, tank transporter measures 60 feet or a little under 20 metres, so you could fit three tank transporters, nose to tail, in the same distance that the blades take up, and that’s not counting the cab hauling it.

Car transporters under EU law can measure up to 18.75m (there are plans to allow 20.75m) even with their front and rear overhangs. In conclusion, a lorry hauling a 74m wind-turbine blade is a bloody long load.

The Danish company that churns out these blades, Vestas Mediterranean, is busy sending out the 74m V150’s as the shorter ones are no longer being made. The V150 nomenclature reflects the total diametre of the windmill’s turn reach.

On the 21st of May, Vestas announced that it had secured an order from Fortum, a publicly listed energy supplier, for the 90 MW wind project Kalax in the province of Närpio in Western Finland.

(News: Motril, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)