General Electric (GE) has released plans to build the most powerful offshore wind turbine called Haliade-X. The new wind turbine will produce 45% more energy than other currently available offshore wind turbines. It is massive in size and scale. It will be 260m (850 feet) tall and each blade is 107m (350 feet) long. One turbine will be able to power 16,000 households yearly!
Huge Wind Turbine With 350-Foot Blades Can Power A Home For Two Days With One Turn
The size and scale of these turbines make them commercial scale.
Large turbines offer the combined power of many smaller turbines. Requiring fewer turbines means that it will cost less to build powerful wind farms, farms can be built faster, and less maintenance will be needed. Together, these efficiencies will make wind farms more profitable, which will lead to lower energy cost for the consumer.
GE will be adding the new wind turbines to the Dogger Bank Wind Farm.
In total, they will install 190 wind turbines beginning in 2025. It will take a year to install them all. This will make the Dogger Bank Wind Farm the largest offshore wind farm. It is located off the northeast coast of England. Once completed, it will be capable of powering up to 6 million homes yearly.
In the US, the Vineyard Wind 1 project will be adding the new turbines.
The Vineyard Wind 1 project is off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. The wind farm leverages the strong winds off the east coast in the area. That wind farm is expected to be up and running by 2023 and have the capacity to power 400,000 households.
The turbines are almost as tall as the Eiffel tower!
Alistair Phillips-Davies, chief executive at SSE Energy Services, told the Guardian that the wind turbines will create “the world’s biggest, most innovative offshore windfarm. It will generate more energy per turn of those rotors than any other project, enough to power a house for two days.”
This is definitely an exciting new development for green energy.
h/t: New Atlas
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