Largest Wind Turbine in The World
The largest wind turbine in the world is now the Enercon E-126. This super-large wind turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 meters (413 feet). The E-126 is a more sophisticated version of the E-112, formerly the largest wind turbine in the world and rated at 6 megawatts.
This new wind turbine is officially rated at 6 megawatts too, but will most likely produce 7+ megawatts (or 20 million kilowatt hours per year). That's enough to power about 5,000 households of four in Europe. A quick US calculation would be 938 kwh per home per month, 12 months, that's 11,256 kwh per year per house. That's 1776 American homes on one wind turbine.
The largest wind turbine is installed in Emden, Germany by Enercon. They will be testing several types of storage systems in combination with the multi-megawatt wind turbines.
