Though the biggest currently-functioning offshore wind turbines top out below 10 MW, researchers lead by the University of Virginia are hoping to develop a 50-MW wind turbine with blades 200 meters in length.
The Segmented Ultralight Morphing Rotor Project was awarded a three-year grant of more than $3.5 million by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, CNBC reported.
