China had 65% of global wind production in 2023. China wind power domination goes along with domination of solar power production. China has about 80-85% of solar power manufacturing capacity.
Four Chinese wind turbine original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are in the top five global companies in wind. 16.3 gigawatts (GW) wind was installed.
Goldwind maintained the leading position for the second consecutive year, according to latest analysis from Wood Mackenzie.
Envision closely followed with 14.1 GW.
Vestas connected 11.5 GW, the only western OEM in the global top five.
At fourth and fifth places, Windey and MingYang installed 10.1 GW and 9.9 GW. The market remained consolidated with 54% of the global wind markets held by the top five OEMs.
The largest wind turbines are going to over 20 Megawatts each. There have been 14.7 MW wind turbines commercially made.
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Shallow and transparent techno-virtue signalling aside, it will be interesting to see which energy technologies and industries get developed and streamlined in the coming decade as the EV spread and data-centre sprawl matures -> 2x – 3x power demand forecast in the coming 10 – 15 years bandied around in some major economies — that all being said, an effective distribution network rules them All.
China is something of a command economy, and one thing command economies are really good at is getting a short list of things the dictator wants done. Whether or not it makes sense to do them, and regardless of the cost in terms of other things that really needed doing….
Leading the world in unreliable power production isn’t, I suspect, going to work out well for them. Then again, they’re probably just Potemkin windmills intended to distract from their dirty coal power…
Good news for Tesla! Someone’s going to supply Mega packs of batteries to store intermittent energy for when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine…
[ Persia (700 a.D.) and China (maybe ~20 a.D., or later with being transferred knowledge from Persia(?)) had very early horizontal (vertical axis) windmills and active to wind forces were sails.
75438 / 4m²(/kW) =~18.9MW for photovoltaics, but on ~half utilization/capacity factor and contrary to that ~half of investment(&low maintenance) costs, comparing offshore and utility scale (?) ]
What’s the point? Your Engrish is often very choppy and full of anomalous punctuation. You’re saying that primitive man had windmills earlier than 1500. Bravo great. Are you arguing that modern windmills are a good thing? To me they’re clearly a scam; even my company is involved in it
[ i think, making use out of wind power is an old idea (with sails older, Cucuteni-Trypillian culture ceramics show sailing boats, Mesopotamia, ~6k-5000BCE, than rotating windmills) and we will get used looking at wind turbines, even more, if they would be integrated into environment with maybe a coloring in light blue and white, being colors of clouds and sky, but that would be contrary to safety for air vehicles.
And, maybe, we see a change from horizontal to vertical axis with even more growth on rotor diameters? ]
[ maybe interesting:
Three Gorges Dam has ~22.5GW nameplate power, that are ~1022 of 22MW wind turbines, on best places wind power having almost/up to 60% capacity factor, or
~100 wind turbines for comparing with Hoover Dam at ~2GW power
average capacity factor for wind turbines on suitable places
(onshore) ~20-35%
(offshore) ~3x-40%
average for solar ~10-25%
average hydroelectricity (global, water availability) ~44% ]
[ 12MW Haliade-X wind turbines from GE are ~825t for nacelle (w.h.l: 11x10x20m, ~77700cft(2200m³), 600t), blades (diameter ~218m, 3*55t) and hub (that’s ~68t/MW, Vestas V164-8MW ~62t, Siemens SWT 7.0-154 ~51.4t), what results to a theoretical weight (with conventional generator, not superconducting materials) for the 18-22MW prototypes/concept of about Starship gross mass, being ~1300t (math. for 18-22MW: ~1250-1500t). ]
I understand that the output of the great hydroelectric power stations may be divided by the capacity written on the nameplate of a GE or Chinesium windmill. I’ll even admit that since we’re not in charge, we have no choice but to get used to looking at them. I figure the fad should pass though by the time my children are old – there are just better ways to keep the lights on than with a generator that needs 85-60% smoothing (the complement of 15-40% capacity factor). There is a certain manufacturing churn to keep people employed – sort of like busywork. This decade, the jobs are making windmills.
[ if most people in need for individual mobility options can afford an electric vehicle and that one with low demand for an electric car for themselves introduce a cheap several kWh local electricity storage device (battery, less likely hydrogen for low demand), that could be an efficiency advantage comparing material costs and maintenance efforts;
and i do agree, that for industrial support and backup options there’s need for steady electricity production, maybe from geothermal, tidal or nuclear power plants, most other sources are solar driven;
maybe they can “grow” turbine rotor blades, with self-healing materials?
human part could/would be simulation of wind parks (for locations) for optimizing; ]
I hear holland was a leader in Windmills the last time they were high tech in the 1500s. I loathe windmills for they are intermittent and an eyesore.
I loathe cities coz they are a eyesore and because of Amazon I don’t need to shop in them as much as I used to.