World’s Most Efficient Wind Turbine in Its Class Makes 1st European Stop in Turkey

April 19th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

GE’s new 1.6-100 wind turbines, the most efficient 1.5-MW wind turbines in the world, will make their European debut in Turkey, a GE announcement this week from the annual European Wind Energy Association conference in Copenhagen noted. 31 of these wind turbines will be used in Fina Enerji’s Tayakadin wind project in Istanbul, Turkey. The electricity produced from the wind turbines is expected to power 14,000 Turkish households.

The 50-megawatt Tayakadin project is one piece of a Turkish plan to install 20,000 megawatts of wind power by 2023. Currently, the country has just 1,800 megawatts of capacity, but wind energy analyses have determined that the country has a considerable 48,000 megawatts of wind power potential.

“GE’s 1.6-100 technology builds on the broad experience of our 1.5 and 2.5 megawatt series, with more than 17,500 of those units installed today,” said Stephan Ritter, general manager of GE’s Renewable Energy business in Europe. “Featuring a 100-meter rotor diameter and 80-meter hub height, the 1.6-100 provides the highest capacity factor of any wind turbine for class 3 sites.”

Overall, the company intends to install 1,500 of these new 1.6-100 wind turbines around the world in the next two years. GE’s 1.6-100 1.5-MW wind turbines will also be used in a big planned wind energy project in Canada being developed by Chinese wind energy company Longyuan, as Andrew reported earlier today.

The 31 turbines for this Fina Enerji Tayakadin project are supposed to be shipped from a manufacturing facility in Salzbergen, Germany by the end of 2012. The project is supposed to be completed by the first quarter of 2013.

Source: GE
Image Credits: 1.6-100 wind turbine via GE (more technical details on that page)

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Luke

Odd how they call it the 1.6-100 and yet it pumps out 1.5MW. Way to make things confusing GE!
- http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  I know. That’s what I kept thinking.
- http://ronaldbrak.blogspot.com.au/ Ronald Brak
  
  Looking at the power curve, once the wind speed goes over 11 metres a second, it does appear to put out about 1.6 megawatts.
  - http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
    
    aha, that might explain it.
Janson

Zachary seems to have a habit of copying and pasting GE advertisements. Real journalist would check if GE’s claim of having the most efficient turbine is true.
- http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  Janson, do you have proof that it’s not the most efficient turbine of its class? you don’t offer up any counter evidence here. i fact-check things that seem dubious. GE being a top wind turbine manufacturer, i do often assume that it’s statements about wind turbines are correct.
  
  btw, this is a blog.
  - Janson
    
    You are asking me to do your job. If a blog just passes on press releases, what is the value of it? Believing company PR is a bit naive.
    
    From a technological point of view GE is more a sub-top player using old Tacke technology. I would expect a turbine of Vestas or Enercon to be more efficient. By the way even if you believe GE’s claim the title is misleading, as you write yourself, the claim is limited to class three sites (sites with a relatively low wind speed).
    - http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
      
      Janson, I’m not asking you to do my job. You made a claim counter to a claim made by a source likely to know what they’re talking about. If you have no proof that the claim is wrong, that’s not my issue — I’m not going to spend 30 minutes trying to find information that probably doesn’t exist.
      Blogs have many purposes, and one leading purpose is curation. I go through hundreds or nearly a thousand stories a day to provide readers with what I think are the cream of the crop. Some of those are primarily short news announcements like this one. Some are more in-depth and assimilate info. Some are op-eds.
    - ThomasGerke
      
      Neither Vestas nor Enercon have a 1.5 MW turbine in their portfolio I think, so this could very well be the most efficent 1.5 MW turbine to this date.
      
      I’ve often seen only modern Enercon turbines produce electricity under serious low wind conditions, while turbines of other makers stood still. So I would tend to believe that an E-82, E-92 (new) or E-101 are the current state of the art… but all are 2-3MW.