Earlier this month, Siemens Gamesa mounted the first of the three 115-metre blades onto the rotor hub.
The 236-metre rotor with blades based on the IntegralBlade® technology will enable the SG 14-236 DD to produce more than 30 per cent Annual Energy Production (AEP) compared to its SG 11.0-200 DD, the company says.
With a rotor of this size, the wind turbine has a swept area of 43,500 square metres.
To put this into perspective, only 90 of these offshore wind turbines could cover the annual electricity consumption of a city the size of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, according to Andre Dalby, Project Manager at Siemens Gamesa.
Expected to be commercially available next year, SG 14-236 DD is Siemens Gamesa’s largest and most powerful model to date and one of the most powerful wind turbines now coming to the market.