(Bloomberg) — China’s Dongfang Electric Corp. has surprised the offshore wind industry with an announcement that it’s built a new turbine radically larger than anything previously available in the sector.
Dongfang on Saturday rolled out a 26-megawatt turbine off the production line, the company said in a statement. That’s 31% bigger than the previous record of 18 megawatts, and surpasses even the largest models announced but not yet constructed, according to BloombergNEF data.
Turbine manufacturers are looking to increase the size of offshore equipment to reduce costs by generating more power from fewer units. Lower prices are still needed because the technology remains more expensive than fossil fuels such as coal in most parts of the world.
Chinese manufacturers also face fierce competition from their peers, and have repeatedly broken size records in recent years.
Dongfang included…
