World’s Largest Wind Turbine Installed in Southeast China

A 16-megawatt wind turbine – the world’s largest – is now in place off the southeastern coast of China.
Developer China Three Gorges (CTG) Corporation and wind turbine maker Goldwind have announced that the world’s largest turbine has been installed off China’s Fujian Province.
It will now undergo commissioning and testing before it’s connected to the grid, Electrek website reported.
The 16 MW wind turbine is part of the second phase of CTG’s Zhangpu Liuao wind farm. The $885 million project is located southeast of the Liuao Peninsula in China’s Fujian Province.
This is the first wind farm to deploy the 16 MW wind turbine that CTG developed with Goldwind Technology. It has a rotor diameter of 252 meters. It also has a swept area of around 50,000 square meters – the equivalent of seven standard football pitches. The turbine’s hub is 146 meters high – that’s as tall as a 50-story building.
One 16 MW turbine is capable of generating 34.2 kWh of electricity per revolution, and it can produce more than 66 GWh of clean electricity per year, according to CTG.
The 400 MW Zhangpu Liuao Phase 2 offshore wind farm will be able to produce about 1.6 TWh of electricity per year.