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signed an agreement with the Deutsche Luft- & Raumfahrttechnik
(DLR), Stuttgart, to produce a wind turbine prototype developed
by DLR. This wind turbine was called Debra-25 and was rated at
100 kW. Ulrich Hütter was responsible for its development.
Köster continued improving this machine and renamed it
Adler-25 of which a dozen were sold in northern Germany. Once
again, Köster ceased production in the early 1990 due to bankruptcy
of the blade supplier.
Figure 18.10
Köster 165 kW Adler-25 wind turbine located at Barlt,
Schleswig-Holstein, 2007. Note the downwind rotor and
the maintenance platform outside the nacelle (Photo: Arne
Jaeger).
MAN: 1979-1992
In the late 1970s The Federal Ministry of Technology and Research
(FMTR) hired MAN to design a small wind turbine simultaneously
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