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

June 29: These people actually didn’t fiddle. Developer China Three Gorges (CTG) and wind turbine maker Goldwind have introduced that the world’s largest turbine, whose set up off Fujian Province is now up. It was solely three days in the past that the set up platform was simply shifting into place to place the turbine up.

It’ll now bear commissioning and testing earlier than it’s linked to the grid.

Goldwind and China Three Gorges launched some pictures of the set up of the large wind turbine:

You may be taught extra in regards to the monumental 16 MW turbine under.

June 26: The 16 MW wind turbine is a part of the second part of China Three Gorges Company’s (CTG) Zhangpu Liuao wind farm. CTG issued an announcement this morning that mentioned its wind energy set up platform, “Baihetan,” was shifting into place to put in the turbine.

The CNY 6 billion ($885 million) undertaking 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 ft). It additionally has a swept space of round 50,000 sq. meters (538,195 sq. ft) – that’s the equal of seven customary soccer pitches. The turbine’s hub is 146 meters (479 ft) 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 could actually produce greater than 66 GWh of unpolluted electrical energy per yr, in keeping with CTG.

The 400 MW Zhangpu Liuao Section 2 offshore wind farm will be capable of produce about 1.6 TWh of electrical energy per yr. In accordance with CTG, this could save about 500,000 tons of normal coal and cut back emissions by about 1.36 million tons yearly.

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Photograph: Solar Xiaocong

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