In Fuzhou, Fujian Province A 26-megawatt offshore wind power turbine has been rolled off the manufacturing line by China’s Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC)
The company said the offshore wind power turbine is prepared for areas with wind speeds of 8 m/s and above and is highly resistant to typhoons and corrosion.
At a hub height of 185 meters, which is approximately the size of a residential building with about as many floors), the turbine features blades that stretch upwards for over 310 meters in diameter and a total swept area covering almost ten and a half football fields.
Each unit could produce 100 GWh of clean energy per year at an average wind speed of 10 m/s, which is sufficient to power more than 55,000 homes annually, according to DEC.
One Geastow turbine could help cut coal use by 30,000 tonnes and CO2 emissions by 80,000 tonnes.
DEC says the 26 MW offshore wind turbine is not only a record in terms of size but also capacity.
In June of this year, DEC connected an 18 MW offshore wind turbine to the grid at its coastal test base in Shantou City of Guangdong province.
With a rotor diameter of 260 meters and a swept area of more than 53,000 square meters, the model can beneficially yield an annual electricity output totalling at least around 72 GWh, which could provide clean renewable energy to somewhere in between thirty-even thousands of households throughout the year.
A couple of months later, Mingyang Smart Energy, another Chinese wind turbine manufacturer, brought its MySE 18 to Foshan. X-20 MW in Hainan.
The turbine is suitable for medium-to-high wind speed regions worldwide and especially suited to typhoon prone sites, according to Mingyang.
