https://www.gerenewableenergy.com/wind-energy/turbines/offshore-turbine-haliade
more info: https://www.ge.com/reports/making-w...wind-turbine-size-skyscraper-worlds-powerful/
GE Develops ‘World’s Largest Offshore Wind Turbine’
Mar 2018
The size matters. The huge rotor allows the engineers to catch a lot more wind and ramp up what the industry calls “capacity factor.” This number describes the amount of power the turbine can produce per year at a given site, versus the energy it could have generated had it run full power all the time. GE’s Haliade-X clocks in at 63 percent, “five to seven points higher than the competition,” Schellings says. “Basically, every point of capacity factor is worth $7 million per 100 megawatts for our customers. That’s a nice upside.”
Offshore wind is the fastest-growing renewable energy segment. “The renewables industry took more than 20 years to install the first 17 GW of offshore wind,” said Jérôme Pécresse, president and CEO of GE Renewable Energy. “Today, the industry forecasts that it will install more than 90 GW over the next 12 years. This is being driven by lower cost of electricity from scale and technology. The Haliade-X will set a new benchmark for cost of electricity and drive more offshore growth.”
I wasn't able to confirm they use NdFeB, but it's a direct drive unit, GE does use PM tech for other turbines and I'm like 99% sure it's got to be NdFeB-based.
Wind is picking up.
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