Huge Turbines Will Soon Bring First Offshore Wind Power to New Yorkers

JohnDClay, 6 months ago

Yay! These things are absolutely massive since they don’t need to fit under bridges. I wonder how many mega watts these ones are. The largest ones are like 16MW each.

jjagaimo, 6 months ago

According to their website 12 turbines generating a total of 132MW => 11MW each

So not the largest available but then again that’s likely better for cost

JohnDClay, 6 months ago

Looks like about 2MW is average for on shore, so these are still massive! css.umich.edu/…/wind-energy-factsheet

mosiacmango, 6 months ago

Still pretty amazing. Means each turbine alone will power around 10k homes.

iraq_lobster, 6 months ago

whats the repercussions of this footprint wise? According to google a 2Mw turbine requires 0.006 km², so a 0.33Gwc of capacity per km². i wonder also how long does a windmill work per day, when averaged yearly …