China is working to break its own record for the world’s largest wind farm by creating an even better, larger one that would be capable of powering over 13 million homes, reveals a report by Euronews.
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Revealed in the 14th five-year plan for Chaozhou in Guangdong province, this would be a 43.3-gigawatt project that would be installed in the Taiwan Strait.
The work is expected to commence before 2025 and upon its completion, it is expected to surpass the largest wind farm in the world — The Jiuquan Wind Power Base in China — according to officials from Guangdong province.
The farm is expected to be 10 kilometres long and would have thousands of strong wind turbines operating between 75 and 185 kilometres offshore. With the help of the distinctive topological features of the region and windy location, the turbines would be able to run between 43 percent to 49 percent of the time — around 3800 to 4,300 hours every year.
To put things in perspective, one gigawatt is one billion watts and to generate this much electricity, around three million solar panels are required. And one gigawatt can power 100 million LEDs or around 300,000 typical European homes.
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Today, almost 9 percent of Norway’s electricity comes from hydropower plants that have a 31-gigawatt capacity, far less than what China is planning to execute with their project. In fact, the world’s combined onshore and offshore wind power capacity hit 830 gigawatts by 2021 end of 2021, of which over half came from China.
In fact, in the last five years, China has installed more offshore wind power capacity than any other nation in the world.
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