If you have ever driven on the Donghai Bridge that snakes its way from the mainland Shanghai for 32.5 kilometers (20.2 miles) out to the offshore Yangshan deep-water port, you know that the view of the silt laden “East Sea” can get rather monotonous (although once you get to the port, the wind swept mountains raising from the sea are pretty spectacular).
Now the vista from the bridge will be enlivened with 34 wind turbines, the first of which was installed over the weekend.
Each wind turbine is 90 meters high and weighs 400 tons. The blades are 45 meters long. “The 2.3 billion yuan (US$337 million) plant will generate 260 million kilowatt hours of electricity yearly, a supply for 170,000 families, said the Shanghai Electric Co Ltd.” when fully operational in time for the 2010 World Expo.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Greg // Mar 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
Hopefully the wind farm will be better maintained than the olympic venues after the show is over.
2 Brendan // Mar 26, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Thinking I’d get lucky and find some of the foundations for the wind turbines on google maps, I went to check it out. Couldn’t find any wind pylon foundations, but if you find the Yangshan deep-water port, the satellite pictures for the port at different zoom levels are from different dates: if you are zoomed in sufficiently you can see the completed (?) port complex, with all of the land fill, but if you zoom out its the islands before most of the construction; makes for a pretty spectacular ‘before and after.’
3 cmcelwee // Mar 26, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Nice catch Brendan and thanks for sharing! Considering that this is a “deep-water” port, the amount of fill that must have been used is mind boggling.
4 Bob Burgess // Jun 5, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Would like to talk with the Donghai Bridge Wind Farm project team about protecting the turbine foundations. Does anyone have any contact names and details there?
5 Alberto // Jun 26, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Hello to everybody, as Bob I´m looking for some information about the foundation of Donghai Bridge, using the Google maps it´s impossible to see anything. I would be so pleasured if someone could send me some information. Thank you everybody.
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