Disputes between the United States and China are fierce. Chinese wind turbine promises to be the largest on the planet and will displace the wind turbines of the American giant General Electric.
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).
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Watch the video below and learn about the Chinese wind turbine that promises to displace the wind turbines of the American giant General Electric
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.
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MySE 16.0-242: a wind turbine designed to generate 80 GWh of electricity per year.
The numbers of this wind turbine are impressive. It incorporates a 16 MW generator and has a height of 242 meters, making it 18 meters lower than General Electric's Haliade-X. Even so, according to MingYang Smart Energy, its wind turbine is capable of producing 80 GWh of electricity per year, 13 GWh more than GE's turbine. This theoretical maximum performance will allow the Chinese wind turbine to supply electricity to no less than 20.000 homes. Not bad at all.
However, in this area it is not just about adding meters in height and wingspan; it is also crucial to optimize the aerodynamics of the blades to increase the performance of the wind turbine. According to MingYang Smart Energy, its engineers managed to catapult the performance of its new wind turbine by 45% over its predecessor, and they did so by increasing the rotor diameter by 19%.
Another interesting and important fact that is worth not forgetting is that this wind turbine will have a service life of 25 years. The first prototype will be ready in 2022, and the testing phase with it will start in 2023. mingyang Smart Energy will begin large-scale manufacturing of this wind turbine during the first half of 2024.
Mini wind turbine with the price of a cell phone, produces energy at home, operates in the same way as large wind farms and promises to revolutionize the generation of renewable energy in the world.
In Ceará alone, there are 27 mini plants distributed in eight different municipalities, supplying 90 units. With a still incipient market throughout Brazil, the use of mini wind turbines (aerogenerators) for Distributed Energy Generation is still not well known. The production of wind energy at home has the same operation as large wind farms, however, with a reduced size. Watch the video below and see how to install your mini wind turbine.
With the high cost of electricity throughout Brazil, due to the water crisis and the use of thermoelectric plants, wind energy can gain new fans in the country, just as it happens with solar energy.
The costs for installation of a wind system vary according to the desired power, which can range from 500 W to 6 W, with prices ranging from R$ 2,7 to R$ 50.