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Singapore’s first offshore Wind Turbine
By Majulah Millennials  •  October 21, 2017

Sometimes lazy M.M. will read up cute news like this. Being a Nerd, M.M. will occasionally do something more than just reading it. (As a kid, he loves renewable energy)

So NTU has build this horizontal axis wind turbine in our offshore land – Pulau Semakau, just south of Bukom Island. We probably won’t have the chance to see it, Shell Engineer in Bukom may have the chance to see.

Anyway it is capable of generating electricity for 45units of 4rm flat. The average monthly consumption of electricity of 4rm flat is 387 kWh in 2015 (EMA). Breaking it down to per hour usage…

0.5 kWh/flat

That means it is able to generate 22.5 kWh on average throughout the day. To put in perspective, we would need 18,000 of such turbine to replace one typical 400MW gas power plant unit (Combined Cycle).  Should they scale it up, they would

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