Giants fight: General Electric is beaten by Siemens Gamesa, which celebrates the first energy of its wind turbine, considered the largest and most powerful on the planet!

Siemens Gamesa displaces its rival General Electric and reaches a new milestone for wind energy. This is the connection to the grid of the largest existing wind turbine on the planet. The SG 14-222 DDD, whose nominal power is 14 MW, which can reach 15 MW in an optimized version with Power Boost, puts GE's 12 MW Haliade-X turbine, currently connected in the Port of Rotterdam, “in the slipper”.

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Specifically, the wind turbine manufacturer installed this marvel of wind technology in Osterild (Denmark) at the wind power test centre. That's how the Siemens Gamesa team was able to install the prototype. Don't miss it, watch the video below:

The largest and most powerful wind turbine on the planet has a capacity of 14 MW of energy, a rotor of 222 meters and blades of 108 meters in length

By increasing the rotor diameter to 222 meters, with blades 108 meters long, the SG 14-222 DD wind turbine generates up to 25% more AEP than its predecessor. The scanning area reaches 39.000 square meters.

One of the great novelties of this turbine is that its blades are completely recyclable. The pioneering RecyclableBlade technology is based on our proven development of the IntegralBlade® blade and uses its same manufacturing process, but with a different resin type. The new resin is just as strong and reliable as the old one, but with added benefits that allow it to be recycled. At the end of their life cycle, the materials in the blade can be reused in new foundry applications after separation.

Thanks to IntegralBlade® technology, each fiberglass blade is manufactured in a single piece. With this process, blades of excellent quality, resistance and reliability are obtained.

Series production is scheduled for 2024. In this way, Siemens Gamesa surpasses GE and its 12 MW Haliade-X connected in the Port of Rotterdam.

The largest wind turbine in the world will be Chinese: wind turbines that China plans to use in the construction of its most ambitious wind farm are more powerful than General Electric's Haliade-X

The pulse held by the United States and China touches many sticks. The competition gets fierce between these two global superpowers, in which no other country seems able to participate. During the last few months, both nations have announced the start of several wind farm construction projects, in which the largest wind turbines on the planet will intervene. By 2023, the United States hopes to have completed a wind farm hosted on an island belonging to the state of Massachusetts, which will incorporate the monstrous Haliade-X wind turbines, from General Electric (GE). Watch the video below and learn about the Chinese wind turbine

The wind turbines China plans to use to build its most ambitious wind farm are even more powerful than General Electric's Haliade-X.

This wind turbine is 260 meters high, incorporates a 12 MW generator, has a 220-meter rotor and, according to its creators, is capable of producing 67 GWh per year, which, on paper, can supply up to 16.000 homes. The UK will use these same wind turbines in the wind farm it plans to build on the Dogger Bank, a huge sandbar located in the North Sea, 100 km off the east coast of Great Britain.

The wind turbines China plans to use to build its most ambitious wind farm are even more powerful than General Electric's Haliade-X. The Chinese company that is working on them is called MingYang Smart Energy, and its new wind turbine, is called MySE 16.0-242, in a very obvious reference to the technical characteristics with which this company aspires to break all records of electricity generation, by wind energy.