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That's 360,000 homes in 10 years! The growth is unstoppable!
/s parodying the idiotic misuse of units
Holy guacamole I need more pictures of this giant.
I am having trouble comprehending how large that is. 260 m blade diameter, means at least 500 m tall. The CN Tower is 550 m tall.
How do the units even work out? That's 0.5 kW per household, a ridiculously low number.
It might power 36k households on average but definitely not during times of any serious load.
At night all I've got running for several hours is my fridge.
Are there particular pros and cons to the scale of each individual turbine? I think this is the first time I've seen that figure reported as opposed to the capacity of the wind farm as a whole
With larger turbines you need fewer for the same capacity. This means less manufacturing, easier maintenance, they are taller, which means more stable and stronger wind, and a lower price of construction. However larger turbines also lead to greater stresses on the system, so that can again increase maintenance and large blades are hard to transport on land.
So it is a compromise. Up to now offshore wind turbine manufacturers always built bigger turbines with newer generations. However the engineering challenges increases, so many have stopped going for bigger then 14-16MW and instead go for increased numbers of turbines with higher reliability.
I can picture the equipment procurement meeting perfectly based on this description, good analysis
Surprised they aren't pushing more aggressively into floating offshore.
Does anyone known why they aren't?