New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
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New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
by usman sattar Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:31 pm
The world’s largest wind turbine is now the Enercon E-126. This turbine has a rotor blade length of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the world’s largest wind turbine and rated at 6 megawatts. This new turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That’s enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, 12 months, that’s 11,256 kwh per year per house. That’s 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.
The turbine being installed in Emden, Germany by Enercon. They will be testing several types of storage systems in combination with the multi-megawatt wind turbines.
These turbines are equipped with a number of new features: an optimized blade design with a spoiler extending down to the hub, and a pre-cast concrete base. Due to the elevated hub height and the new blade profile, the performance of the E-126 is expected to by far surpass that of the E-112
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Re: New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
by abdulsattar Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:37 pm
so this is called mechanical engineering......we should also think about it....
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