Artificial island may boost offshore wind power generation
According to foreign media reports, a European power grid company has proposed the idea of a large offshore wind power plant equipped with an artificial island, which can significantly reduce the cost of wind power generation. TenneT is a company that provides electricity to about 41 million people in the Netherlands and Germany. The company's blueprint for offshore wind power generation aims to build the world's largest offshore wind farm with a power generation capacity of 30 gigawatts (1 gigawatt is equal to 1000 megawatts) and build an artificial island around it. The power produced by offshore wind turbines is first transmitted to the artificial island, processed, and then transmitted to the countries around the North Sea through DC cables, including the Netherlands, Britain, Belgium, Norway, Germany and Denmark. According to the assumption, the candidate site of the artificial island is the Dogg beach in the North Sea, which is more than 100 kilometers away from the coast of East Yorkshire, UK, and may be completed between 2030 and 2050. The company said that due to the short distance between the artificial island and the wind turbine, cheap AC power can be sent to the island first, and then uniformly distributed to the European continent or the UK. In addition, the artificial island can also achieve "economies of scale": the components for maintaining the wind turbine can be stored uniformly; Maintenance and other work can be arranged in a unified manner; Starting from the artificial island, the cost of aircraft and ships to the wind turbine will also be reduced. The company will negotiate with the EU and its member states on this. Previously, enterprises have successively joined the consortium led by TenneT. Last year, on November 28, 2017, Rotterdam port with rich experience in land reclamation became the fifth partner of the consortium.
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