Comments by "Peter Jacobsen" (@pjacobsen1000) on "WELT Documentary" channel.

It should be noted that this project is quite old. It was commissioned in 2014, ancient history in the off-shore wind power world. Turbines were 3.6MW each, about a third of the standard in 2020/21. Nevertheless, this documentary is very instructive and interesting.
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@dannywalters2365 Good question. I don't have the data, but European wind power projects generally pay themselves off and make a profit. A wind power project commissioned in 2014 should have a lifetime of 25-30 years. The world's first off-shore wind power project was commissioned in 1991 in Denmark and was eventually de-commissioned in 2017 after 25 years. To give an idea of how wind power has evolved, that first off-shore project was only 5 MW divided between 11 turbines (450 kW/turbine). Now, a single offshore turbine has a capacity of over 10 MW.
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@zachary3777 Yes, several turbine manufacturers are working on the 15-18 MW range at the moment, incl. Siemens, Vestas, maybe Goldwind, GE. This is not going to stop anytime soon, but it does take a number of years to develop each of these new, bigger turbines.
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@jishan6992 Basically yes, but improvements in the gearing and mechanism help too. For on-shore wind power, capacities are lower, around 6MW, but off-shore, they're getting really big. I'm guessing you might be Chinese. Try to look into Chinese-made off-shore wind turbines. CSSC Haizhuang is currently trying to develop an 18MW turbine. That is very big, indeed. Turbines of this size also need to be raised very high over the sea surface.
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@abbashaider6651 I don't, but I'm sure there must be some here. Just search and limit by time, like choose 'within the last year' when searching.
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