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The 13 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Can Produce 312 MWh in a Day.
The offshore project developers recently announced that they will use a GE (General Electric) wind turbine known as the GE Haliade-X, possibly the largest wind turbine in the world with a capacity of 13 MW, an impressively high amount.
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The new 13 MW turbine will soon be able to produce 312 MWh in a day, 8% more than the previous 12 MW GE Haliade-X produced at the Maasvlakte-Rotterdam port in the Netherlands. This turbine has already set a world record by becoming the first to produce 262 MWh of power in 24 hours, enough to power 30,000 homes in the area.
Energy analyst John Rogers, who wrote for the Union of Concerned Scientists, calculated the energy production of the new turbine and found that it could meet all the energy needs of a home in just seven seconds. Meanwhile, GE claims that a single turn of the GE Haliade-X turbine could power a home for two days.
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