Danish wind turbine builder Vestas has introduced a giant 15 MW offshore wind turbine - V236-15.0 MW- joining has joined GE's and Siemens' 'bigger is better' party.
Vestas said the new turbine will have the world’s largest swept area exceeding 43,000 m2, and will deliver "industry-leading performance and moves the boundaries of wind energy production to around 80 GWh/year."
This is, Vestas said, enough to power around 20,000 European households and save more than 38,000 tonnes of CO2, which is the equivalent to removing 25,000 passenger cars from the road every year.
"Combining the wind industry’s largest rotor with the highest nominal rating, [V236-15.0 MW] is designed to deliver excellent performance while reducing the number of turbines at park level, strengthening the project business case," Vestas said.
"The globally applicable offshore turbine offers 65 percent higher annual energy production than the V174-9.5 MW, and for a 900 MW wind park it boosts production by five percent with 34 fewer turbines. It offers excellent partial-load production, resulting in a more stable energy production, and a capacity factor over 60 percent depending on site-specific conditions," the company added.
The first V236-15.0 MW prototype is expected to be installed in 2022, while serial production is scheduled for 2024.
Henrik Andersen, Vestas President and CEO, says “Introducing our new offshore platform is a huge achievement for everyone at Vestas, as it marks a big leap forward in a very important journey. As a global renewables leader, every decision Vestas takes today must be in service of building scale for renewables in the future - only by doing this can we ensure a more sustainable future energy system. Offshore wind will play an integral role in the growth of wind energy and the V236-15.0 MW will be a driver in this development by lowering levelised cost of energy thus making our customers more competitive in offshore tenders going forward”.
Anders Nielsen, Vestas Chief Technology Officer, says “With the V236-15.0 MW, we raise the bar in terms of technological innovation and industrialization in the wind energy industry, in favor of building scale. By leveraging Vestas’ extensive proven technology, the new platform combines innovation with certainty to offer industry-leading performance while reaping the benefits of building on the supply chain of our entire product portfolio. The new offshore platform forms a solid foundation for future products and upgrades."
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