The world’s most powerful single turbine was successfully installed on Monday, April 9, for Vattenfall’s European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland.
The turbine is the first of 11 to be deployed at the facility in Aberdeen Bay. Vattenfall also confirmed that it is one of two turbines that have been significantly enhanced with further internal power modes to generate more clean energy from the EOWDC. The two turbines have each increased from 8.4MW to 8.8MW and yesterday’s installation represents the first time an 8.8 MW model has been deployed commercially in the offshore wind industry.
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EOWDC will be able to produce more than 70% of Aberdeen’s domestic electricity demand and annually displace 134,128 tonnes of CO2. The EOWDC is the first offshore wind project to deploy the foundations at commercial scale and pairing them with the world’s most powerful turbines represents another industry first.
MHI Vestas has designed the V164-8.4 MW and V164-8.8 MW turbines which have a tip height of 191 metres. Each blade is 80m long and the 164m rotor has a circumference larger than that of the London Eye’s.
