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The Haliade-X industry’s first 14 MW offshore wind turbine 260M high (ge.com)
10 points by mirzap on Dec 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



What does something like this cost, and then what's it's all-up install cost? IE trying to get to a $/kWh figure.


According to [1] the cost of such a large wind turbine is about $1 MM/ MW. Assuming a capacity factor of 40% [2], a 12 MW turbine would produce about 115 MWh per day, or 42 GWh per year, or 840 GWh over a lifespan of 20 years. That's about 1.4 cents per kWh. But that's excluding other costs (installation, operation, transmission). It appears to me this is the dominant cost, so overall I think it would come to less than 3 cents per kWh.

[1] https://www.offshorewind.biz/2020/09/21/rystad-energy-less-i...

[2] https://windeurope.org/about-wind/daily-wind/capacity-factor...


Slightly smaller ones are about $2800/kW including finance, installation, substation, and (sometimes) cabling to shore. The turbine is 1/3rd to 1/2. Generally bigger ones are cheaper, but deeper water has costs too.

https://www.irena.org/Publications/2022/Jul/Renewable-Power-...

I helieve the Halide X isn't the biggest anymore. Mingyang announced a 16MW.


All that just for 14 MW. Wow


I hear the fuel is pretty cheap though.




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