SHANGHAI: China’s first deep-sea floating wind power turbine platform, invested and built by China National Offshore Oil Corp, marked an important step in the construction of the offshore wind power project with a water depth of over 100 m and an offshore distance of over 100 kms, says the company.
The platform departed from Zhuhai, South China’s Guangdong province on Sunday, and will be installed in an offshore oil field 136 kms from Wenchang in Hainan province, where strong winds and big ocean waves posed a huge challenge to the design of the wind power platform, it said.
With an installed capacity of 7.25 megawatts, the platform can generate 22 million kilowatt-hours of electricity each year. Power generated will be transmitted to surrounding gas and oil extraction facilities and used for energy production. — China Daily/ANN
