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Facing the challenge of the super typhoon "Makar"! The world's largest floating wind turbine and the world's largest offshore wind turbine demonstrate excellent typhoon resistance performance


On the afternoon of September 6, this year's 11th typhoon "Makar" (super typhoon level) landed in Wenchang, Hainan. When it landed, the maximum wind speed near the center was above level 17 (62m/s), becoming the strongest autumn typhoon to land in my country.


The movement path of the super typhoon "Makar" swept across Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions. All wind turbines in operation in the South my country Sea were directly or indirectly affected by the typhoon. In the typhoon, more than 1,700 Mingyang wind turbines, including the world's largest floating wind turbine "Mingyang Tiancheng" (MySE16.6T-180), the world's largest offshore wind turbine MySE18.X-20MW unit, the first "double hundred" floating wind power platform in China "CNOOC Guanlan" (MySE7.25-158), the first floating wind power platform in China "Three Gorges Leading" (MySE5.5-155), and the world's first typhoon-fishing integrated intelligent equipment "Mingyu No. 1", faced the challenge of "Makar" and demonstrated excellent typhoon resistance.


At the same time, the 43 wind turbines in operation at the Mingyang Yangjiang Qingzhou Si Offshore Wind Farm, the world's first offshore wind farm with an installed capacity of over 3 million kilowatts, successfully withstood the impact of the super typhoon, generating over 10.88 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from 0:00 on September 5 to 9:00 on September 7, once again proving my country's technological leadership and reliability in the field of offshore wind power, turning the "typhoon zone" into a "rich mining zone."


                                                  


Innovation leads, floating wind turbines demonstrate excellent "wind resistance"


In Yangjiang, Guangdong, the floating wind power platforms "Mingyang Tiancheng" and "Three Gorges Leading" developed by Mingyang Smart have demonstrated excellent typhoon resistance.


"Mingyang Tiancheng" has responded to the challenges of extreme weather with real skills. To ensure the stability and safety of the wind turbine, "Mingyang Tiancheng" considered 360° typhoon loads at the beginning of its design. "Mingyang Tiancheng" adopts a single-point mooring system. Under the traction of the anchor chain and the aerodynamic lift provided by the wing-shaped tower, it can make adaptive yaw adjustments according to the direction of the typhoon - where the typhoon blows, "Mingyang Tiancheng" turns there, so that the wind rotor is always facing the direction of the wind.


Its single-point mooring solution reduces the ultimate load of the supporting structure by 40%, thereby improving the safety and stability of the wind turbine in typhoon weather. Through the analysis and evaluation of the motion response monitoring data of the "Ming Yang Tiancheng" under various extreme working conditions during the typhoon, the motion response of the "Ming Yang Tiancheng" in the typhoon was consistent with the design and met the design requirements. During the typhoon, the cabin acceleration was stable within 0.13g.



"Ming Yang Tian Cheng" faces Typhoon Makar

During this typhoon, the "Three Gorges Leader" faced a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 40m/s. The MySE5.5-155 wind turbine carried by the platform was injected with typhoon-resistant genes during the design stage. During the development of the unit, based on considerations of harsh environments such as typhoons in the South China Sea and extreme waves, Mingyang Smart conducted in-depth research and customized design, and selected a once-in-50-year extreme wind, wave and current operating condition design that can withstand up to a level 17 typhoon. Since its commissioning in 2021, the "Three Gorges Leader" has once again successfully withstood the impact of extreme weather, once again proving Mingyang Smart's technical strength and product reliability in the field of offshore wind power.

Chasing the blue sea, more than 1,700 wind turbines are running safely and stably


In late August this year, the MySE18.X-20MW offshore wind turbine with the largest single-unit capacity and the largest rotor diameter in the world was installed in Lingao, Hainan, which is also the main path of Typhoon Makar. This unit was awarded the "2023 Global Best Offshore Unit Gold Award" by Windpower Monthly magazine. It adopts a flexible power design and has a maximum power of 20MW. Relying on the operating experience of more than 2,600 typhoon-resistant units of Mingyang Smart, MySE18.X-20MW adopts active typhoon-resistant technology and is "safe and sound" in this extreme weather condition.

MySE18.X-20MW in the typhoon


During the typhoon's passage, coastal wind farms in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places were all affected. According to statistics, 1,735 Mingyang wind turbines in 51 offshore and onshore wind farms faced the typhoon challenge and performed well in typhoon resistance.


Around 13:40 pm on September 6, the maximum instantaneous wind speed of 47 Mingyang typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbines at the Xuwen North Offshore Wind Farm in Zhanjiang, Guangdong reached 76m/s, equivalent to a wind strength of more than level 17.

During the typhoon's passage, the maximum instantaneous wind speed at the Mingyang Yangjiang Qingzhou Si Offshore Wind Farm was monitored to reach 49m/s, equivalent to a wind strength of more than level 15. The wind farm showed excellent typhoon resistance, with a power generation of more than 10.88 million kWh from 0:00 on September 5 to 9:00 on September 7.

"Mingyu No. 1", located in the wind circle of this typhoon, also stood steadily in the typhoon. It adopts a design environmental condition that occurs once in 50 years, comprehensively considers multi-professional design concepts such as marine engineering and fishery farming, rationally strengthens the design of the cage structure and net system, and reduces the loss of aquaculture volume under typhoon conditions, effectively ensuring the safety of equipment and farmed fish, and can withstand the impact of up to a super typhoon of Level 17.

Mingyu No.1 stands steadily in the typhoon


Advancing despite challenges, cultivating the “no man’s land” of wind power development


Most of China's coastal areas are in typhoon areas. Mingyang Smart Energy has gone forward despite the difficulties and turned the typhoon "no man's land" into a "rich area" for wind power development. Mingyang Smart Energy innovatively combines typhoon resistance intelligence with AI, and configures personalized typhoon resistance control strategies for different regions, wind farms, and machine positions, so that it can perform intelligent logical judgment and actively respond to typhoon attacks. At the same time, by real-time monitoring of wind direction, average wind speed, maximum wind speed, air pressure, distance from wind farms and other predictive data in the future typhoon landing area, it provides a scientific and effective basis for formulating typhoon resistance strategies.

One minute on the "typhoon", ten years of hard work off the "typhoon". Mingyang Smart Energy's history of typhoon resistance can be traced back to Zhanjiang, Guangdong. In 2007, the world's first typhoon-resistant 1.5MW wind turbine developed by Mingyang Smart Energy was put into operation in Xuwen, Zhanjiang. Since then, Mingyang Smart Energy has continued to lead the development of typhoon-resistant wind turbines.

In 2016, the MySE 3.0 MW typhoon-resistant offshore wind turbine was put into operation at the Guishan offshore demonstration wind farm in Zhuhai. The following year, it experienced the direct impact of the 17-level strong typhoon "Tian Ge", and it still operated reliably and stably under the extreme wind speed test of 68.5m/s; in 2021, the world's first typhoon-resistant floating wind turbine "Three Gorges Leading" developed and designed by Mingyang Smart Energy was successfully connected to the grid; in 2023, "CNOOC Guanlan" started the journey of catching wind and resisting typhoons at a water depth of over 100 meters and an offshore distance of over 100 kilometers; in September 2024, the world's largest single-unit floating wind turbine "Mingyang Tiancheng" faced the challenge of the super typhoon "Makar".

After 17 years of resisting typhoons, Mingyang Smart Energy has independently overcome many world-class problems of offshore wind power in typhoon areas, and has achieved global leadership in typhoon-resistant wind power technology, becoming the company with the most actual operation data of typhoon wind farms in the industry, and is also the "first brand" among typhoon-resistant wind turbines. Up to now, more than 2,600 Mingyang wind turbines have been operating in the typhoon area. These wind turbines have experienced dozens of typhoons of different levels, with the maximum typhoon level reaching 18.
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