![]() The rotor is now 167-metres in diameter - the largest currently on the market - up from the previous 154-metre versions, providing a specific power rating of 365W/m 2 assuming an 8MW capacity. While it has a nameplate capacity of 8MW, it can potentially be uprated to 9MW with a power-mode option. This SG 8.0-167 model was launched at the WindEurope conference in Amsterdam in November 2017. Siemens Gamesa’s machine is another big turbine that has benefited from regular and incremental evolutions since its initial launch in 2011 as a 6MW unit with a 120-metre rotor. It is also set for Belgium’s 224MW Northwester 2, the German 252MW Deutsche Bucht project and the 731.5MW Borssele III & IV site in the Netherlands, where two models will be installed on mono-suction-bucket foundations for the first time.īeyond Europe, the manufacturer announced it had signed a preferred turbine supplier agreement for its V164 8-9.5MW platform for projects in Taiwan with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which owns three sites off Changhua county in the west of the country. Both projects won support in 2017’s contracts for difference support auction. It was named as the preferred turbine for the 950MW Moray East and the 860MW Triton Knoll wind farms off the UK’s east coast. The V164-9.5MW has a pipeline of roughly 3.7GW. The component was unique to the demonstration machine and did not affect the testing programme, and the model received certification in June 2018. MHI Vestas suffered a small setback when the 9.5MW test turbine in Denmark was destroyed in a fire in 2017, the cause of which was blamed on a faulty component damaged during installation. Its 8-8.8MW version of the turbine has been installed (or is set to be installed) at several UK, Dutch, Danish and German projects, with a combined total of 2.24GW. New MHI Vestas CEO Phillippe Kavafyan said it could become the offshore industry "workhorse" and expressed a desire to keep the platform competitive for a few more years, banking on the industry wanting a proven design over a new, albeit larger model. The joint venture, now in its fifth year, has indicated the V164 platform, originally announced as a 7MW model in 2011, could still evolve further, while rivals examine completely new products. ![]() MHI Vestas continues to lead the way in turbine capacity that is commercially available. Drivetrain: Medium-speed geared IEC Class: S
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