The World's Biggest Wind Turbine

During the first six months of 2020 canny investors sunk an astonishing $35 billion of their hard-earned loot into forthcoming offshore wind projects. And several similarly eco-friendly schemes have been green-lit since. So now wind power has apparently overcome most, if not all, of its skeptics, the question becomes: what kind of awesome new tech is all that money being blown on?

Join us today as we take you for a spin and show you round the world’s biggest wind turbine.

General Electric’s all-new Haliade-X is an elegant marriage of form and function if ever there was one. Rising gracefully some 260 metres above sea level, each is capable of generating at least 12MW of energy with an impressive, industry-leading 63% capacity factor above industry standard.

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The World's Biggest Wind Turbine

[michaelrch]

The engineering going into these blades, to make them that long and strong enough to survive the North Sea is truly breathtaking. My hat is off to the team at GE.

[AnonymousMC]

They had to say "European" household since Americans use so much power... 🤣

[garrycollins]

One rotation will power a home for two days. Very impressive.

[xiromassave]

Not going to lie wind turbines are absolutely beautiful to look at during a sunset. It’s very relaxing to me in my book

[philipxxxdj]

Denmark is building the world’s largest wind energy island
Denmark is building two energy hubs with a potential capacity of 12 gigawatts, including one on an artificial island in the North Sea.

[ricardorinconvillareal]

I work for Vestas. WE now have the world's most powerful wind turbine and also the longest blade at 115 Meters. It's a 15 Megawatt turbine!

[akyhne]

The Vestas V236-15.0 MW is a behemoth. It features three blades measuring 115.5 meters long for a total swept area of more than 43, 000 square meters — that’s 10.6 acres or 4.3 hectares. Each turbine will be capable for creating 80 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity per year, enough to power 20, 000 homes.

[TechCollective]

Love gazing at the wind turbines going to Las Vegas.

[techscene]

the blades are simply amazing. The sheer size of them boggles the mind and who knew so much technology goes into what seems like a very simple design.

[Ikbeneengeit]

There's a lot of real technical details here, I love it

[replica]

smaller turbines can float higher in low vinds - float lower in high winds and even submerge completely in hurricanes/typhoons (fill/empty ballast tanks)

[serpico]

Meanwhile in the USA: "Wont you think of all the dead birdies?" " Also they cause cancer" oof

[auliandabahri]

watching this reminds me the country Netherland..

[MrArtist]

Incredible machines! We’re in a new age of energy production

[BlueMoon_]

12 Mega Watts, that’s almost enough power to power 800 homes

[zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat]

7:35 Siemens 14 MW turbines are not called 'Gamesa'. The windpower division of Siemens is called Siemens Gamesa, as it's a joint venture. Pretty elementary error, I would think.

[orbis_studio]

Wooohoo Blyth, Northumberland got a shout out, my home town, I'm hoping to get a job on this mega project!

[lordsamich]

They haven't convinced the skeptics. The believers just convinced themselves even harder.

[antoniomaglione]

We now need a cheap battery storage to match the gigantic amount of energy produced by this masterpiece of green technology...

[anderslarsen]

First as many others has pointed out, Vestas has announced a 15 mw wind turbine a few month ago so this is already surpassed.

And people asking what to do with surplus energy at night etc etc.
Some companies in Denmark is planning on building a large Power to X factory in Esbjerg that will producer Ammoniak and Hydrogen to be used for fuel etc etc.

Already some small rural train lines are replacing their old diesel trains with Hydrogen trains and DFDS wants to replace their Copenhagen Oslo Cruise ferries with Hydrogen driven cruise ferries by the end of the decade.
So a locally located power to X factory will be very useful.