Zhongshan, China-headquartered OEM MingYang Smart Energy has switched on what the biggest onshore wind turbine yet erected in the Asian nation.

A prototype of the OEM’s 5.2MW MySE5.2-166, which flies a 166-metre-diametre rotor powering a hybrid drive train, will now undergo trials at a test site in Irumqi City.

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