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The Most Powerful Wind Turbine in the World Manufactured by GE Renewable Energy Will Be Installed at the Largest Offshore Wind Farm in the World
GE Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of general electric giant, revealed the achievements of the Haliade-X, the largest wind turbine in the world, which in 2019 was capable of generating 12 MW, with the prototype temporarily installed in Rotterdam. Two years later, they managed to shatter that record by reaching 14 MW. The powerful turbine will be launched this year 2021 and involved investments of 400 million dollars!
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Vincent Schellings, Director of Technology at GE Renewable Energy Offshore Wind, said: “We are pleased to announce that the Haliade-X prototype is the first in the industry to successfully run at 14 MW. When we ordered our Haliade-X prototype for the first time in November 2019, at 12 MW, we made a giant leap in the industry. In the last two years, we learned a lot about operating and optimizing the performance of our Haliade-X platform, allowing us to scale the platform to 14 MW today”. Watch the video below and see the operation of the Haliade-X prototype – the largest and most powerful wind turbine in the world from GE Renewable Energy.
GE Renewable Energy is committed to enabling the energy transition. As part of this responsibility, the business is focused on providing and maintaining a global fleet of renewable energy assets, helping to reduce the cost of renewable energy, ensuring resilience, efficiency, and reliability of the grid, and making renewable energy operate in a more dispatchable manner.
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The Largest Turbine in the World Has the Potential to Produce Up to 74 GWh of Energy Per Year
According to GE Renewable Energy, this new version of Haliade-X is 107 meters long and 260 meters tall. With its size and considering environmental conditions, they estimate that the turbine has the potential to produce up to 74 GWh of energy each year.
In the company’s metrics, they expect to save about 52,000 tons of CO2 per year. This is equivalent to the emissions of 11,000 combustion vehicles in one year.
Why the effort to make turbines bigger and more powerful? It means having to install fewer turbines in each wind farm if each one generates more energy. This means, in a way, a savings in installation costs.
Haliade-X 14 Has Its Days Counted on the Throne
Currently holding the record for the largest and most powerful wind turbine in the world, the Haliade-X 14 is preparing for its commercial debut. It will be installed in series at the offshore wind farm Dogger Bank C, about 130 km off the west coast of England. It is expected that 87 turbines will be installed by 2026, thus becoming the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
But Haliade-X 14 has its days counted on the throne. Although it is the largest and most powerful wind turbine at the moment, it is expected to lose this title next year. Next year, Vestas is expected to unveil its V236-15.0 MW turbine model, with effectively, 15 MW. Similarly, in China, they are preparing a larger one that should enter production in 2024. This is the MySE 16.0-242 from MingYang Smart Energy, with a production of 16 MW.
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