Mingyang 18-20MW wind turbine!

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Mingyang 18-20MW wind turbine!

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And just like that, we now have the first 18MW+ turbine platform.
A rotor diameter of almost 300m. That's just insane!


https://renews.biz/90094/mingyang-rolls ... d-turbine/
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And soon to have an even bigger one with a 320m rotor. :mrgreen:
https://renews.biz/88989/mingyang-launc ... d-turbine/
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Icarus / hubris?
The bigger they come, the harder they fall!
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I wonder where the limit is?
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Stinsy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:22 pm I wonder where the limit is?
Projects I've worked on are expecting up to 24MW by 2030.
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smegal wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:35 pm
Stinsy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:22 pm I wonder where the limit is?
Projects I've worked on are expecting up to 24MW by 2030.
Maybe 50MW. :whako:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wind-turbines ... es-a-limit
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Ripple 6.6kW Wind + 4.5kW PV > 26MWh generated
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nowty wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:41 pm
smegal wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:35 pm
Stinsy wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:22 pm I wonder where the limit is?
Projects I've worked on are expecting up to 24MW by 2030.
Maybe 50MW. :whako:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wind-turbines ... es-a-limit
If the arms race doesn't end soon, all the Western turbine manufaturers will end up going bust.

My guess is that offshore crane height will eventually be what slows things down. Lifting hundreds of tonnes hundreds of metres in the air is a challenge. Also, floating foundations in the 20MW+ scale are already pretty hefty ~5000 tonnes.
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