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World's Most Powerful Wind Turbine: One Rotation 'Can Power the Average UK Home for a Day'

Swedish energy giant Vattenfall announced Tuesday that it successfully installed an 8.8-megawatt capacity offshore wind turbine from Vetas at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) off the coast of Scotland. It's the first of 11 turbines planned for the project and the first deployment of a model of that size for commercial use.

From article, (Swedish energy giant Vattenfall announced Tuesday that it successfully installed an 8.8-megawatt capacity offshore wind turbine from Vetas at the European Offshore Wind Deployment Center (EOWDC) off the coast of Scotland.

It’s the first of 11 turbines planned for the project and the first deployment of a model of that size for commercial use. Vattenfall will also install another 8.8-megawatt model from Vestas at the site.

 Turbines, offshore and onshore, will just keep getting bigger. The MHI Vestas turbines have a tip height of 191 meters and 80 meter-long blades. Looking beyond 2020, MAKE projects the U.K. market will lead offshore turbine capacity growth, with the average megawatt rating nearing 12 megawatts by the end of 2024.

According to EOWDC Project Director at Vattenfall, Adam Ezzamel, "just one rotation of the blades can power the average UK home for a day.”

With an installed capacity of 93.2 megawatts, Vattenfall said the entire facility will produce 312 gigawatt hours per year, enough to power nearly 80,000 homes and meet 23 percent of Aberdeen’s total electricity demand. It will displace 134,128 metric tons of carbon dioxide. Vattenfall has a goal to excise fossil fuels from its portfolio within one generation.

The European Union threw €40 million (about $49.3 million) behind the plant.

The announcement out of Scotland comes just days after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed offshore wind lease sales for 390,000 acres off the coast of Massachusetts.

Those sales are part of the “America-First Offshore Energy Strategy,” executive order that Trump signed last April.)

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