World’s most efficient wind tower is made by A.Silva Matos, a Portuguese company based in Aveiro. This wind tower and its turbine, named E82, produces 30% more energy than its competitors.
According to the Portuguese company the secret of the efficiency of E82 is to be a tower with less thickness and welds stroked after executed. Together these two factors give E82 the ability to produce from 2.4 to 2.6 megawatts, while a traditional tower reaches only 2 MW.
In the clean energies field, A. Silva Matos has interests in small hydro, wind and photovoltaic areas. The company has also a project to produce biodiesel from microalgae. The company’s research team is working on the project for over a year and has already finished the laboratory phase. Industrial phase is now the next step.
aicep Portugal Global, January 2010