The 13 MW offshore wind turbine can produce 312 MWh in one 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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There is no denying that windmills are powerful and clean sources of energy, but there are always naysayers who will try to convince you that they cannot produce enough energy to efficiently power our communities. All that could soon change with the development of the Vineyard Wind project in Massachusetts.
"The selection of GE's offshore wind turbine as our preferred supplier of turbines means that a historic American company will play a vital role in the development of the first commercial-scale offshore wind energy in the United States," said Vineyard Wind CEO Lars T. Pedersen. “This is a great moment not only for the future of our project, but also for the future of an industry that is poised for exponential growth in the coming decades.”
Potential of new offshore wind turbine
The new 13 MW turbine will soon be able to produce 312 MWh in one day, 8% more than the previous 12 MW GE Haliade-X generated at the port of Maasvlakte-Rotterdam in the Netherlands. This turbine has already broken a world record by becoming the first to produce 262 MWh of power in 24 hours, enough to supply 30 homes in the region.
Energy analyst John Rogers, who wrote for the Union of Concerned Scientists, did the math on the power output of the new turbine and found that it could produce all of a home's energy needs in just seven seconds. Meanwhile, GE claims that a single turn of the GE Haliade-X turbine could power a home for two days.
