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Your info on capacity is a bit sketchy, the capacity of turbines being installed now is 8-10MW, with 15MW turbines on the roadmap. 3.6MW turbines were being ins
by gehsty 6y ago
Your info on capacity is a bit sketchy, the capacity of turbines being installed now is 8-10MW, with 15MW turbines on the roadmap. 3.6MW turbines were being installed 7-10yrs ago (exception being Rampion on south coast of UK being installed 2016/17)
Further offshore you go, and the bigger the turbine, generally speaking the better capacity factor you get.
- DrBazza 6y agoThanks. Cunningham's Law in action. It's nonetheless interesting to see the scale of these. You can see them off the coast of Kent quite easily, but there's no perspective for the size.
- gehsty 6y agoThe size is unbelievable to be honest. The 12MW system when constructed will be taller than the Eiffel Tower I believe, and that is the section above water, there will be 20-50m in water then considerable length piled into the ground.
- RobinL 6y agoThe relationship between individual turbine capacity and the total power generation of a given area of land/sea is quite complicated. Bigger turbines don't get you as much additional power output as you might initially think because they have to be spaced out more. This is described in detail here: http://www.withouthotair.com/cB/page_263.shtml http://www.withouthotair.com/cB/page_263.shtml (Of course, there's lots of space out to sea and larger turbines may be more economically viable)
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