China has just unveiled what it claims is the biggest and most powerful floating offshore wind turbine in the only segment of renewable energy where it is not the global leader.
China’s leading train maker, CRRC Corporation Limited (CRRC), has said that the new turbine, with a power generating capacity of 20 megawatts (MW), has rolled off the production line in Yancheng city, news agency Xinhua reports.
To compare, the world’s largest floating offshore wind farm currently in operation, Hywind Tampen in the Norwegian part of the North Sea, has a system capacity of a total of 88 MW, provided by 11 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 8.6 MW.
The Chinese turbine, which is independently developed and made in China, has a rotor diameter of 260 meters (853 feet), and its sweep area is roughly the size of seven standard soccer fields, the company says.
The turbine’s annual electricity generation potential could be enough…
