In recent years the wind power sector has undergone a technological evolution that now makes it possible to maximise generating capacity even at less windy sites: for this and other reasons, wind energy is now a mature renewable source with great prospects for rapid growth. The CVA Group is active in the production of wind energy in Italy thanks to 8 wind farms located in the Aosta Valley (3 wind turbines), Lazio (21 wind turbines), Apulia (30 wind turbines), Tuscany (4 wind turbines) and Campania (11 wind turbines). In 2021, CVA’s wind farms produced 315 million kWh, the equivalent electricity consumption of around 115,000 households.
With an installed capacity of 42 MW, the Piansano (Viterbo) wind farm is the CVA Group’s biggest facility. It now comprises twenty-one 2 MW Vestas V90 wind turbines, which have a hub height (the point at which the blades are attached) of 80 metres and a rotor diameter of 90 metres. Did you know that the length of one blade of these wind turbines is 44 metres, roughly equal to the height of a 15-storey building?