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China’s 16MW floating wind platform starts generating power
China has started generating power from the world's first 16MW floating wind platform, Haiyou Anlan, in the South China Sea. Installed 136 km offshore in waters 136 metres deep, the structure rises…
The Story in Brief
China has started generating power from the world's first 16MW floating wind platform, Haiyou Anlan, in the South China Sea. Installed 136 km offshore in waters 136 metres deep, the structure rises nearly as high as a 110-storey building. Business Today reports it is a tension-leg platform designed to withstand Category-17 typhoons and operate for 25 years.
The platform combines wind, fuel-based power, and energy storage to supply reliable electricity to an offshore oilfield network. It is expected to produce about 54 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually, saving nearly 15,000 cubic metres of fuel oil and cutting carbon dioxide emissions by around 35,000 tonnes each year.
The Indian Opinion
The Haiyou Anlan is a genuine engineering feat, but the breathless framing of 'forever changing offshore energy' ignores how this is a pilot project, not a revolution. The real test is cost. Floating wind remains far more expensive than fixed-bottom turbines. Will this platform's hybrid model, mixing wind with fuel and storage, prove economically viable without subsidies? That number, and that alone, will settle whether this is a breakthrough or a showcase.
Source: businesstoday.in
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