World’s biggest offshore wind turbine into mass manufacture by 'second half 2021'

Serial production of GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine, the world’s biggest at 12MW, is on track to start next year, with the US OEM reporting the design had been awarded a key technology certification by DNV-GL.

The provisional type certificate for the Haliade-X, a prototype of which is turning in the Port of Rotterdam, anoints the technology as having the “highest safety and quality standards,” said GE, “and provides evidence that its design is on-track to meet the full type certification requirements”, which would clear the model for manufacture.