The Anonymous Widower

GE’s Recently Unveiled 18 MW Wind Turbine To Spin Offshore Japan

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on offshoreWIND.biz.

This is the sub-heading.

The three consortia that Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) selected in the country’s second round of offshore wind auctions will use some of the biggest and most powerful wind turbines on/coming to the market – Vestas V236-15 MW and GE’s 18 MW Haliade-X.

Wind farms under construction or in pre-construction in the UK, as I write this post, include.

• Neart Na Gaoithe – 8 MW x 54 – 450 MW
• Sofia Offshore Wind Farm – 14 MW x 100 – 1400 MW
• Dogger Bank A – 13 MW x 95 – 1235 MW
• Moray West – 15 MW x 60 – 882 MW
• Dogger Bank B – 13 MW x 95 – 1235 MW
• Dogger Bank C – 14 MW x 87 – 1218 MW
• East Anglia Three – 14 MW x 95 – 1372 MW
• Hornsea Three – xx MW x 231 – 2852 MW

Note.

1. I can’t find the turbine size for Hornsea Three.
2. This article on The Telgraph is entitled Ørsted Asks For More Government Cash Amid Doubts Over Flagship Wind Farm Project, says that Ørsted and Claire Coutinho are talking.
3. The total power is 10644 MW.
4. There are a total of 817 turbines.
5. This is an average turbine size of almost exactly 13 MW.

There would appear to be scope to increase the size of these wind farms by using the new larger turbines.

Just uprating the turbines to 15 MW  would increase capacity by 15 %.

The frequency of stories like these are increasing.

Crown Estate Mulls Adding 4 GW Of Capacity From Existing Offshore Wind Projects

Vattenfall Boosts Capacity For Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone

Three Steps To Unlocking The Potential Of High-Power Wind Turbines

Ossian Floating Wind Farm Could Have Capacity Of 3.6 GW

Developers are seriously thinking of building or upgrading wind farms with larger turbines and other capacity-increasing technology.

December 14, 2023 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Offshore Wind Power, Wind Power