Looks like the world’s largest wind farm on the water (photos)

But soon, her record will be beaten.

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19 kilometers from the coast of great Britain in the Irish sea area of 145 hectares (approximately 20 thousand football fields) located 87 giant wind turbines. At the moment it is the world’s largest wind farm on the water. Its capacity of 659 MW, and it provides electricity to 600 thousand British homes.

The construction of a wind farm Walney Extension was involved in the Danish Ørsted company. The first wind turbine with a height of 190 meters was posted in September 2017 and April 2018.

The world’s first wind power plant on the water appeared in 2015 and found that this arrangement provides advantages.

Station water was 25% more efficient than those that are located on land because the wind over the water nothing to stop it.

Now Walney Extension in the Irish sea is the most powerful wind power plant in the world, but soon her record will be broken. In 2020, the UK will complete the construction of the wind farm East Anglia One (714 MW) and Hornsea Project One (1.2 GW), and by 2021 will be commissioned wind farms Borssele III/IV MW 731,5 in the Netherlands and Triton Knoll in the UK, with a capacity of 731,5 MW and 860 MW, respectively.

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Publication of mygoodplanet (@mygoodplanet) 6 Sept 2018 at 3:25 PDT

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