Turning to a ground in the disembodication of the port of Rotterdam is a huge turbine that is difficult to photograph. The diameter of the rotor of its rotor is much larger than that of American football fields on the other side. The future models will be more than any edition in the continental portion of Western Europe.
Equipped with sensors that retrieve data on wind speed, electricity production and precision in its components, the giant gear machine in the Netherlands is a test model for a new series of giant marine turbines planned by GE, by su sigla en Engels). When assembled in conjunction, the eolic machines have the potential of giving energy to enteric cities, with which they replace the carbon dioxide emitting plants of natural gas that form the vertebral column of many electrical systems in the present.
GE has the tariff to install one of these machines in ocean water. As a relatively new company in the marine energy business, GE is raising questions about speed and efficiency with the ability to increase production to build and install turbines.
But the giant turbines have caught the attention of industry. A high executive executive of the global e-park developer of the classification such as “a jump with respect to state-of-the-art technology”. An analyst confirms that the machine and the expected sales are “industrial”.
The prototype is the first of a generation of new machines that are approximately one more potent than the largest and most commercially available in commercial service. On the other hand, there is the exchange of commercial calculators by manufacturers, developers and investment investors.
GE machines offer an energy generation capability that can be unimaginable. A solar power plant will generate 13 megawatts of energy, sufficient to illuminate a city of approximately 12,000 hogares.
The turbine is capable of producing such a propulsion as the engine engines of a Boeing 747 aircraft, according to GE, and was deployed in the sea, but the developers stated that the mayor could plant larger turbines than in the world to capture more powerful vehicles and fables.
The career to build larger turbines has accelerated much faster than the many industrial figures in the industry. GE’s Haliade-X generates more than 30 times more electricity than the first maritime machines installed in Denmark in 1991.
In recent years, it is likely that customers soliciting machines including larger ones, say the executives of the industry. On the other hand, it is also predicted that, while commercial aircraft are launching at their maximum point with the Airbus A380, the turbines will clear a point at which a mayor will not be economically inclined.
“We will also read to a maximum point; simply do not know where it is today ”, said Morten Pilgaard Rasmussen, director of technology at the maritime eolithic unit of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the manufacturer of maritime turbines.
Although the maritime turbines represent in the current round about five percent of the energy generation capacity of the oil industry in general, this part of the commercial activity has acquired a proprietary identity and hopes that it will create more energy than in the next few years.
GE began launching an energy campaign in 2002, when it acquired Enron’s terrestrial turbine business – an exit unit of a company that was hit by a spectacular contour scandal – into a bankrupt bank. There was a minor downfall in the maritime industry when its executives decided to go out of their way to make them four years old. Vieron a market in crime with only one pair of serious western competitors.
However, GE drivers are waiting to convert into a more challenging marine entourage, more challenging, to be heard. Procedureon has more than duplicated the training of its existing maritime machines, which has been awarded to GE through the acquisition of the energy sector by the company Francesa Alstom in 2015. The idea was to obtain a sale on key competitors such as Siemens Gamesa in Vestas Wind Systems , the manufacturer of turbines with headquarters in Denmark.
A larger turbine produces more electricity and, for that matter, major mayors like a small machine. The tamaño also helps to reduce the construction and maintenance costs of a single park because less turbines are required to produce a certain amount of energy.
These qualities generate a powerful incentive for the developers to be deceived by the most large machines available to help them win the tenders of energy ministers from the sea that many countries have adopted. These tenders vary in format, but basically the developers compete to proportion energy during years to the lowest price.
“What we are looking for is a turbine that allows us to win these tenders”, said Vincent Schellings, who directed the design and production of the GE turbine. “Here is the tambourine of the turbine desempeña a very important paper”.
Among the first clients is Orsted, the Danish company that is the mayor of the world maritime parks. It has a preliminary agreement to buy around 90 of the Haliade-X machines for a project called Ocean Wind near Atlantic City, New Jersey.
GE’s turbine is becoming the most popular of its competitors’ quizzes, analysts say.
On December 1, GE announced another agreement to propose turbines to Vineyard Wind, a huge ebolic park near Massachusetts, and has contracts to add 276 turbines to what is likely to be the largest ebolic park in the world. United Kingdom.
These agreements, together with the maintenance contracts that the company provides, totaled 13,000 million dollars, estimates Shashi Barla, chief energy analyst at Wood Mackenzie, a market research firm.
GE will need to describe how to manufacture a large number of efficient machines, initially on French plants and quizzes, in the United Kingdom and United States. With a historical maritime escalation, GE should also demonstrate that it can install and maintain a reliable way the large machines in the sea, using specialized barges and providing adverse climatic conditions.
“GE has much to demonstrate to the owners of assets in order to build GE turbines,” said Barla.
The manufacture of larger machines has a more delicate and flexible work for Siemens Gamesa, GE’s main rival, which is building a prototype for a more powerful new machine in its maritime complex in Brande, in the peninsula of Jutland, in Denmark. The secret: the new models that are even bigger than the company have not been much distanced from a format that has ten years of antiquity.
“The fundamental aspects of the machine and its functioning are the same as the differences,” said Rasmussen, director of technology at the unit, which states a “point of departure that is a little bigger” than the GE.
It has a lot of space for competence. John Lavelle, director of the industrial marítimo de GE sector, conductor of the “aumentan cada año” brand.