Siemens, the European Manufacturing giant, is taking the wind world by storm by building the largest offshore wind turbines SWT 6.0 - 154,with each of its blades having an astonishing length of 75 meters each.
This is just fractionaly short of Airbus A380 with a wingspan of 79.8 meters across. Each of these blades is single piece of carbon fibre, and these turbines will be mounted off the coast of Britain from 2014.
Siemens is working with its partner DONG Energy to create the offshore turbines. The group agreed on July 2012 to supply a total of 300 wind turbines with a capacity of 1,800 megawatts, which will be installed in wind power plants off the coast of Britain between 2014 and 2017.
DONG Energy has already announced that it will install two of the new 6MW wind turbines later this year for testing at Gunfleet Sands offshore wind farm, which is about five miles off the Essex coast near the Thames estuary.
The 6MW wind turbines are designed for large-scale projects, with the government targeting to produce 18 gigawatts of offshore wind energy by 2020, which will equate to around 18 percent of the UK's electricity demand.
The rotor has a diameter of 154 meters and has a swept area of more than 18,600 square meters, which is equivalent to the area of approximately two-and-a-half football fields. Siemens says the energy production of one 6MW turbine is sufficient to supply about 6,000 European households with electricity.
