General Electric Company

Ronald Lawrence Yenser

James Eric Reed

Gary Wayne Holladay

Sergi Unzueta Garcia

Eduardo Moreno Benito

A tower assembly for a wind turbine includes a tower and a freestanding internal tower structure assembly. The tower has a tower wall defining an inner surface and an outer surface separated by a tower wall thickness, with the inner surface defining a tower interior. The internal tower structure assembly is positioned within the tower interior. The tower structure assembly includes a plurality of stackable support structures configured to support one or more internal tower components. Further, the tower structure assembly is freestanding within the tower interior.

Freestanding internal structure assembly for a wind turbine tower

The present disclosure is directed to a ladder attachment system for securing a ladder within a tower of a wind turbine. The ladder has parallel legs and a plurality of rungs arranged perpendicularly between the parallel legs. The ladder attachment system includes at least one external stiffener configured at a top end of each of the parallel legs. Each of the external stiffeners includes a longitudinal body having an open cross-section configured to receive one of the parallel legs along a length thereof. Further, the ladder attachment system also includes a load-bearing bracket assembly configured with each of the external stiffeners. In addition, the ladder attachment system includes at least one support arm arranged in a horizontal plane and configured with each of the parallel legs, with the support arms being spaced apart from the load-bearing bracket assembly along a height of the ladder.

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Simpsonville, SC, United States of America

Ronald Lawrence Yenser