Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction is stepping up its efforts to commercialise an 8MW offshore wind turbine, which is being developed as a national project.
Doosan announced on 27 January that it had completed implementation of the 8MW offshore wind turbine prototype at the Korea Wind Power Demonstration Center, located in Baeksu, Yeonggwang, South Jeolla Province. The commissioning process will be initiated at the end of this month, after which international certification for the wind turbine will be obtained and final preparations for commercialisation will be completed in June.
The 8MW offshore wind turbine, which was developed as an industry-academia-research sector co-operation project led by the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), is Korea’s largest wind turbine to date. The 8MW wind turbine, encompassing the blade that is 100 metres long and tower that is 130 metres high, has a total height of 232.5 metres, which makes it nearly as tall as the N Seoul Tower. The wind turbine has a high efficiency, as it has the capacity to produce 8MW of power where winds blow at a speed of 11m/s and shows a utilisation rate of 30% or higher even when the average wind speed is 6.5m/s.
Doosan Heavy has been preparing for the growing number of offshore wind turbine orders in the domestic market by building a second wind turbine shop at its Changwon headquarters and securing additional manpower. The company also signed a supplier agreement last year to provide equipment for the 100MW Jeju Hallim Offshore Wind Farm, which is Korea’s largest offshore wind farm to date.
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