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Large wind turbines are interesting, because due to the lower friction from the ground winds are stronger up there so the capacity factor is appropriately highe
by Tade0 5y ago
Large wind turbines are interesting, because due to the lower friction from the ground winds are stronger up there so the capacity factor is appropriately higher.
They also scale in power with the swept area, so it pays to make them even larger.
IIRC the current state of the art is 14MW with a 60% capacity factor and that is not the manufacturers' last word.
Exiting times ahead for wind power because while it's still intermittent, it gets built so much faster than nuclear.
- erk__ 5y agoThere is a few years before they get to that size, Siemens Gamesa have one of that size and that is not entering into serial production before 2024 [0]. That said the first one of those have just been set up this week, though not offshore but in Thy in Denmark [1] (Article in Danish) Siemens Gamesa and Vestas is in quite a competition about who can construct the largest windmill so it will be interesting to see where it gets us. [0]: https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore/wind-turbine-sg-14-222-dd https://www.siemensgamesa.com/products-and-services/offshore... [1]: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/verdens-stoerste-vindmoelle-snurrer-i-thy-kan-lave-stroem-til-18000 https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/regionale/midtvest/verdens-stoerst...