Super Typhoon Yagi battered the OceanX platform emerges unfazed. Designed by Chinese wind firm Minyang Smart Energy and constructed Huangpu Wenchong Shipbuilding Company and China State Shipbuilding Corp. The platform was launched in April 2024.
The OceanX, which is made from ultra-high performance concrete, features a single-point mooring system for durability, cost-efficiency, and typhoon stability.
Typhoon Yagi passed close to the Mingyang Ocean-X platform, deployed at the Qingzhou IV Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of southern Chinese province Guangdong.
With maximum sustained winds reaching 234km per hour, Yagi was the strongest storm to hit China in 75 years.
The V-shaped design employed is one of the most distinctive constructed in the wind industry to date. It carries two Mingyang MySE8.3-180 semi-direct-drive turbines, giving the entire platform a combined capacity of 16.6MW.
Its innovative design features twin counter-rotating rotors mounted on a V-shaped structure with high-tension cables, secured to a Y-shaped floating platform for enhanced stability.
Minyang Smart Energy claims that its OceanX platform not only withstood the storm’s intensity but also stood as a testament to reliable offshore wind technology amidst extreme conditions.
Mingyang president Qiying Zhang posted footage on LinkedIn as Yagi left a trail of destruction across southeast Asia.
Zhang wrote that the OceanX platform had “experienced Typhoon Yagi successfully.” Mingyang’s LinkedIn account posted that the OceanX platform had been “unfazed by the storm’s fury” and had “demonstrated its superior anti-typhoon features.”
However the storm significantly affected at least six turbines of a more traditional design at an onshore wind farm on China’s island province Hainan.
Sources:
- Interesting Engineering, September 9, 2024. https://interestingengineering.com/…/mingyang-oceanx…
- Recharge News, September 9, 2024. https://www.rechargenews.com/…/watch-as…/2-1-1706325