{"id":190990,"date":"2024-06-11T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/in-a-world-first-china-installs-an-18-mw-offshore-wind-turbine"},"modified":"2024-06-11T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:22:36","slug":"in-a-world-first-china-installs-an-18-mw-offshore-wind-turbine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/in-a-world-first-china-installs-an-18-mw-offshore-wind-turbine","title":{"rendered":"In a world first, China installs an 18 MW offshore wind turbine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-a-world-first-china-installs-an-18-mw-offshore-wind-turbine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has installed an 18-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine \u2013 the world\u2019s largest by power rating \u2013 in Guangdong province.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned power generator manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation completed the installation of the massive wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s 18-MW offshore wind turbine has a 260-meter (853-foot) rotor diameter and a swept area of 53,000 square meters (570,487 square feet) \u2013 equivalent to 7.4 standard football fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has installed an 18-megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine \u2013 the world\u2019s largest by power rating \u2013 in Guangdong province. State-owned power generator manufacturer Dongfang Electric Corporation completed the installation of the massive wind turbine at a coastal test base in Shantou on June 5. China\u2019s 18-MW offshore wind turbine has a 260-meter (853-foot) rotor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}