• @[email protected]
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    145 months ago

    With larger turbines you need fewer for the same capacity. This means less manufacturing, easier maintenance, they are taller, which means more stable and stronger wind, and a lower price of construction. However larger turbines also lead to greater stresses on the system, so that can again increase maintenance and large blades are hard to transport on land.

    So it is a compromise. Up to now offshore wind turbine manufacturers always built bigger turbines with newer generations. However the engineering challenges increases, so many have stopped going for bigger then 14-16MW and instead go for increased numbers of turbines with higher reliability.

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      25 months ago

      I can picture the equipment procurement meeting perfectly based on this description, good analysis

    • @mysteryname101
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      15 months ago

      Last issue. The forces on the tips of the wind turbines are insane.