A single generator provides power for 80,000 people for a year
China has been demonstrating a firm and sincere commitment to the fight for decarbonization for years. Although it is reproached for its lukewarmness and slowness in the elimination of coal, the truth is that the Asian country carries out an impressive deployment of renewable energies. Demonstration of this is the implementation of the elderly wind turbine ever built in history.
It is a technical prodigy that demonstrates how far this type of facility can go. It is MySE-16-260, a 16 megawatt turbine with a 260 meter rotor diameter. these shovels they can sweep a vast area of 53,000 m2, equivalent to the area of seven football fields.
As well as being impressively large, the MySE-16-260 is also extraordinarily robust and solid, as the turbine has withstood hehe devastating winds from Typhoon Talim that hit China recently.
The measurements of the set are really impressive. The central tower of MySE 16-260 stands nearly 153 meters tall and houses a generator that weighs 385 metric tons.
Mingyang Smart Energy, the designer of the turbine, said in a LinkedIn post that the turbine “will produce 67 million kWh of energy per year, enough for the use of 80,000 residentsreducing CO2 by 56,000 tons& rdquor ;.
The bigger the cheaper
The race to install the largest wind turbine is not simply a competition between countries or companies. The larger the size of these mills, the better they work, the more installation costs are reduced and the cheaper energy is resulting.
“Compared to installing 13 MW models, the increased power of the MySE18.X-28X would save the 18 devices needed for a one gigawatt wind farm, which would be a construction cost savings of $120,000 to $150,000 per megawatt”says Mingyang in a statement.
It uses a holographic sensing system to control and reduce overall loading, and can slow down blade flutter and minimize vibration in the tower and foundation by 50%.
According to the Xataka portal, Chaozhou, a city in the province of Guangdong, will house an ambitious 43.3 gigawatt installation in the Taiwan Strait. This will be immense in size, 10 kilometers long, and will feature thousands of powerful turbines. Because the location experiences unusually raging wind, the turbines will be able to generate electricity 43-49% of the time.
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