The enormous S2000 Stratosphere Airborne Wind Energy System (SAWES) flew at an altitude of 2,000 metres in southwest China's Sichuan Province, generating electricity and successfully connecting to the power grid - a world first for a high-altitude wind power device. . Wind power could soon come from the sky as China has successfully tested a megawatt-class airborne turbine that generates electricity while hovering 2000 metres up. China has completed a test flight of what it says is the world's first megawatt-class high-altitude wind power system designed for. . China's furthest offshore wind power project from the coast, the Three Gorges Jiangsu Dafeng project, connected its first units to the grid recently, marking a step toward developing wind power in deeper and more distant waters, said industry experts and company executives. The furthest point of. . jiang, Guangdong Province, and constructed by CGC. It is the first national public platform approved by CNCA, which is able to provide offshore w e construction of offshore wind industry clusters. This achievement highlights the country's commitment to rapid and stable growth in wind. . Chinese state-owned energy giant China Huaneng Group unveiled on Thursday the world's most powerful direct-drive floating offshore wind turbine in Fuqing, East China's Fujian Province, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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The turbine is the result of research by Chinese energy giant China Huaneng Group and power generator Dongfang Electric Corporation, both of which are state-owned enterprises. Each turbine would be capable of generating 17 megawatts (MW) of clean electricity, or 68 million kilowatt hours (kWh) over the course of a year.
Land-based, utility-scale wind energy projects use highly efficient, state-of-the-art wind turbines that generate cost-competitive electricity at power-plant scales. They can be owned and run by a utility company that then sells the power the plant makes to users, like homeowners, who connect to the electrical grid.
Wind turbines used as a distributed energy resource can be connected at the distribution level of an electricity delivery system (or in off-grid applications) to serve on-site energy demand, or support operation of local electricity distribution networks.
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