The world's largest windmill "Enercon E-126" boasting 7 MW of power generation per unit

There are advantages such as low greenhouse gas emissions and no fuel cost,Plan to build a wind farm offshore in the UKThere is wind power generation. For that purpose, the world's largest windmill is the substitute E-126 of Enercon, Germany. The length of the wing is 126 m and the amount of power generation seems to be as high as 7 MW.

Details are as follows.
E - 126 is an improved version of windmill called E - 112. The bottom is E-112.


A movie of E-112 turning in the fog. It is shooting from a distance, but it is a pretty big windmill.
YouTube - Enercon E-112


E-126 under construction.


The root part of E-126. Compared with human being too big, it looks like a monster 's feet.


From the back side of the wing part.


In the United States, one household consumes 938 kilowatt hours a month, and one year 125,000 kilowatt hours. Since E - 126 can generate 20 million kilowatt - hours per year, one unit can support the annual power consumption of 1776 households in the United States. By the way, it seems that it is about 5,000 families for 4 people in Europe.

Enercon is the third largest company in the world's wind power market share, the No. 1 market is Vestas in Denmark, with a market share of about 33%, the second largest share in Gamesa, Spain, with a share of 17%. The top company in Japan is Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, with a market share of about 2%.

Wind power generation - the situation of wind power generation - Wikipedia

The figure of 7 megawatts is quite small if it is a thermal power generation, and it is a level that is not so big even for solar power generation. In order to obtain a certain amount of electricity generation it is necessary to make this wind farm wind farm. Balancing energy conservation and energy conservation is still a challenging task ....

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