The first of Chinese turbine-maker MingYang Smart Energy’s 99-metre-long blades for its 11MW offshore model has come out of the moulds at its Guangdong Shanwei fabrication facility.

The new ultra-long glass-carbon composite design, engineered for typhoon-class conditions – with wind speeds of 70 metres per second or 156 miles per hour – will be flown by the MySE11-203, on tract to be commercially available from 2022.