Rated
at
6.15MW,
the
machine
–
which
has
126-metre-diameter
rotor
with
a
swept
area
of
almost
12,500
sq
metres
–
currently
holds
the
title
of
the
world’s
most
powerful
offshore
wind
turbine.
Thirty
6Ms
will
this
year
be
erected
on
pre-installed
quattropod
jackets
by
the
Deme-owned
GeoSea
Neptune
crane
jack-up
vessel,
with
a
further
16
in
the
frame
for
installation
by
mid-2013.
When
fully
developed,
Thornton
Bank
will
have
a
capacity
of
295MW.
“With
the
first
REpower
6M
installed
offshore,
we’ve
delivered
the
first
turbine
of
that
size
to
global
‘water-world’,”
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