Europe trumps China: Denmark is now the strongest wind turbine in the world-thanks to EU money and German expertise

Sie werden immer größer und leistungsstärker: Windräder. Der neue Spitzenreiter steht in Dänemark unter deutscher Mitwirkung. Bildquelle: PixabayThey are getting bigger and more powerful: wind turbines. The new leader is under German participation in Denmark. Image source: Pixabay

If there is one of which we cannot have enough in the coming decades, it is electrical electricity. Always stronger wind turbines combined with saving are one of the tonal instruments. In the outbidding competition of the engineers, European heads have once again won the top position.

The world's largest and strongest wind turbine turns on the Danish coast - under German participation. It breaks two world records just a few months ago.

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A giant with electricity for 70,000 households

The system intended for offshore inserts with the unspectacular nameSG 21-276 DDis in the Østerild test park for wind turbines in northern Denmark. It was built by a German-Spanish company that belongs to Siemens.

The key data impress:

  • Perfomance:21 Megawatt (MW)
  • Rotordurchmesser:276 meters. Each of the three rotor blades almost towered over to Cologne Cathedral - someone put it next to it.
  • Slipped surface of the rotor blades:about three soccer fields

The new turbine trumps some nearing record wind turbines from China by a few meters and one to three megawatts. The current yield ofSG 21-276 DDshould be enough to supply 50,000 to 70,000 households (depending on the size) for one year. The European Union has Siemens-Gamesasupported with around 30 million euros.

Average offshore wind turbines in Germany-the latest extension(via wind-energie.de):

  • Perfomance:10,4 MW
  • Rotordurchmesser:186 Meter

Wind power plants such as this or its smaller predecessors will be increasingly in operation in the North and Baltic Sea in the coming years. So shouldAccording to state informationto be capable of 70 gigawatts (GW) by 2045.

We are currently hereAccording to the consulting companyGerman wind guardAt around 10 GW. From today's top systems with 20 MW-nation, it would take about 3,500 pieces for this goal. Around 1,700 are currently in operation off the coasts, but a lot of (see box above) are significantly smaller than the average value. Some will surely go through conversions in the future, but more recent wind turbines will take the place.

Meanwhile, the next projects are already pending in China, which should soon repeat the top position in one or the other or even all categories in the event of wind power. But ultimately, success in this field remains a pleasant news for all of us. In the long term, the most modern wind power of mankind as a whole is of use.