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18, Fraunhofer IWES, Development of onshore turbine size
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The graph illustrates the average growth in hub height and rotor diameter compared to the growth in nominal output between 1990 and 2012: As rotor diameters and hub heights increased, the average output of the turbines also grew from 2.2 MW in 2011 to 2.4 MW in 2012.
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