New Record: World’s Largest Wind Turbine (7+ Megawatts)
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
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.
World’s Largest 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.
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
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.
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
World’s Largest Wind Turbine
A graph of the World’s Largest Wind Turbines.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:57 am
How can I obtain permisison to use the photo of worlds largest wind turbine in a college textbook?
Lori Hancock
August 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
Hmmm, it would take at least several hundred of these to equal the power output of 1 AP1000 reactor (the wind doesn’t blow constantly you know) Wind power is a very big waste as far as land and materials are concerned. It’s a dead end as far as I’m concerned.
250 powerplants each with 2 AP1000 reactors would provide far more power and with far less land use and materials than these massive monstrosities sprouting up all over the place.