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Wind turbines are already skyscraper-sized – is there any limit to how big they will get?

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par Simon Hogg, Executive Director of the Durham Energy Institute, Durham University

In 2023, some 100 miles off the coast of north-east England, the world’s largest wind turbines will start generating electricity. This first phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development uses General Electric’s Haliade X, a turbine that stands more than a quarter of a kilometre high from the surface of the sea to the highest point of the blade tip.

If you placed one in London, it would be the third-tallest structure in the city, taller than One Canada Square…

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