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Big boy turbine
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:13 am
by dan_b
https://electrek.co/2022/10/10/wind-tur ... ld-record/
222m rotor diameter, 14MW direct drive generator, produces a lot of energy over a 24 hour period! Bigger is better!
Re: Big boy turbine
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 9:43 am
by John_S
That is impressive. It is a 14 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine with a capacity of up to 15 MW with Power Boost. It produced 359MWh in a 24 hour period which is only one less than its theoretical maximum of 360MWh (15*24).
Re: Big boy turbine
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 12:26 pm
by Stinsy
I remember when the first 1MW turbine was a big deal!
The technology for wind power really is maturing fast!
Re: Big boy turbine
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 3:40 pm
by dan_b
The video that was shared the other day on here about "how big can wind turbines get" makes for very interesting viewing too with this one in mind.
Re: Big boy turbine
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:20 pm
by GarethC
I looked at the capacity factors for offshore wind turbines on Andrew's page the other day. Also interesting to see the newest ones generally well exceed 40% capacity factors. The Hywind floating demo is over 50% after a few years operation. Clearly the higher the capacity factor the less storage or basleoad we will otherwise need (I think) so also hugely encouraging.
I wanted to do the joint capacity factor of several recent wind farms as, if the simple average capacity factor is, say, 45%, the joint capacity factor should be higher. But the maths were beyond me.