Take A 360° Tour Of World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm In Operation
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.
This is the sub-heading.
Located some 89 kilometres off the Yorkshire Coast, the UK, the 1.3 GW Hornsea Two comprises 165 Siemens Gamesa 8 MW wind turbines and is currently the world’s largest fully commissioned offshore wind farm.
The article has a link to an excellent Ørsted video, about they access and service the wind farm.
The Anonymous Widower 
Oh never seen a 3d you tube video before very clever. You get a feel for the scale of the setup here the awesome engineering and whats involved to keep these machines going (which is a lot more/MW than a coal fired station). Whats still madness is the amount of wind that got switched off on sat/sun just gone because the grid couldn’t cope with it. We really need to move to windfarms being forced to have batteries or green hydrogen so when there is a surplus it isn’t just lost especially as it was virtually free.
PS: to be fair Hornsea wasn’t one of the ones forced to switch off but several Scottish ones had to.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | July 5, 2023 |
Gamesa, turbines suffer from major problems.
“Siemens Energy estimates that component failures may be occurring in between 15% and 30% of its installed fleet of turbine” and the reason behind its profit warning and share collapse. So the farm may not live up to expectations
Dave
Comment by David | July 5, 2023 |