A 16-megawatt (MW) wind turbine – the world’s largest – is being put in place off the southeastern coast of China.

The 16 MW wind turbine is a part of the second section of China Three Gorges Company’s (CTG) Zhangpu Liuao wind farm. CTG issued an announcement this morning that stated its wind energy set up platform, “Baihetan,” was transferring into place to put in the turbine.

The CNY 6 billion ($885 million) challenge is sited southeast of the Liuao Peninsula in China’s Fujian Province.

That is the primary wind farm to deploy the 16 MW wind turbine that CTG developed with Goldwind Know-how. It has a rotor diameter of 252 meters (827 toes). It additionally has a swept space of round 50,000 sq. meters (538,195 sq. toes) – that’s the equal of seven commonplace soccer pitches. The turbine’s hub is 146 meters (479 toes) excessive – that’s as tall as a 50-story constructing.

One 16 MW turbine is able to producing 34.2 kWh of electrical energy per revolution, and it may produce greater than 66 GWh of fresh electrical energy per 12 months, in response to CTG.

The 400 MW Zhangpu Liuao Section 2 offshore wind farm will have the ability to produce about 1.6 TWh of electrical energy per 12 months. In line with CTG, this will save about 500,000 tons of ordinary coal and cut back emissions by about 1.36 million tons yearly.

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