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  2. List of most powerful wind turbines - Wikipedia

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    All the most powerful turbines are offshore wind turbines. This list also includes the most powerful onshore wind turbines, although they are relatively small compared to the largest offshore ones. As of June 2024, the most powerful wind turbine in operation is the world's first 18MW semi-direct drive offshore wind turbine, developed by ...

  3. Enercon E-126 - Wikipedia

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    Enercon E-126 wind turbine. The Enercon E-126 [1] is an onshore [2] [3] wind turbine model manufactured by the German company Enercon.With a hub height of 135 m (443 ft), rotor diameter of 126 m (413 ft) and a total height of 198 m (650 ft), the turbine can generate up to 7.58 megawatts of power, making it the largest wind turbine in the world (by nameplate capacity) for several years, until ...

  4. Vertical-axis wind turbine - Wikipedia

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    One reason for the low efficiency of a Savonius wind turbine is that roughly only half of the turbine generates positive torque, while the other side moves against the wind and thus produces negative torque. A variant of SWT is the Harmony wind turbine [11] with helix-shaped blades and an automatic furling mechanism during high-speed wind ...

  5. GE Unveils 1.7 MW Wind Turbine; NextEra Orders 59

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    General Electric unveiled today its most efficient wind turbine to date, and NextEra Energy wants in. As the nation's leading producer of renewable energy, the utility will purchase 59 new ...

  6. Wind turbine - Wikipedia

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    [100] [101] Ice accretion on turbine blades has also been found to greatly reduce the efficiency of wind turbines, which is a common challenge in cold climates where in-cloud icing and freezing rain events occur. [102] Deicing is mainly performed by internal heating or in some cases, by helicopters spraying clean warm water on the blades. [103]

  7. Betz's law - Wikipedia

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    In high wind speed, where the turbine is operating at its rated power, the turbine rotates (pitches) its blades to lower C P to protect itself from damage. The power in the wind increases by a factor of 8 from 12.5 to 25 m/s, so C P must fall accordingly, getting as low as 0.06 for winds of 25 m/s.

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