The most impressive achievements of renewable energy in the past year

Now is the time for renewable energy - records are updated almost every day. We decided to collect in one text the most impressive RES achievements of the outgoing year.

400 grams is the weight of the world's most compact hydroelectric power plant, presented this year by Blue Freedom. This RES facility has a power of 5 watts and is capable of charging any portable device - from a smartphone to a video camera.

730 kilometers is the length of the world's longest undersea electric cable. Construction of the gigantic connection between the Norwegian and British power grids began this year and is expected to be completed in six years. The throughput of the cable is 1400 MW.

2.4 gigawatts is the capacity of the world's largest offshore wind farm, construction of which began this year in the North Sea, 80 kilometers from British Yorkshire. 600 wind turbines will provide about 2.5% of the UK's electricity needs.

7 megawatts is the capacity of the world's largest wind turbine installed in the water area of ​​the port of Onaham off the coast of the Japanese city of Fukushima. The height of the giant is 189 meters, and the length of the blades is 82 meters. One such windmill is capable of providing electricity to 6,000 households.

140% of the country's electricity needs were produced by Danish windmills on July 9 this year. Wind gusts that day reached 43 km / h. The surplus of generated electricity went to the power systems of Norway and Germany.

140 kilometers away from the coast of Lower Saxony is the world's most remote offshore wind farm, which was completed this year. 80 wind turbines of 7 MW each provide electricity to 445,000 German households.

$ 0 - This is how much Texas residents pay for electricity from nine in the morning to six in the evening. This became possible due to the rapid development of wind energy in the region. The total capacity of all Texas wind turbines today exceeds 12 GW.

7212 km - this distance without a single refueling was covered by the solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse 2, thereby breaking the world record. This remarkable event took place during the flight from Japan to Hawaii - the next and longest stage of the circumnavigation, after which, however, the trip had to be interrupted until spring for technical reasons.

1 mm³ is the size of the world's smallest solar-powered computer. A microcomputer called Michigan Micro Mote (M3) was unveiled by engineers at the University of Michigan this spring. The device is capable of storing data, measuring temperature and pressure, and even taking pictures. 25,000 m² is the area of ​​the world's largest floating solar power plant built this year by Kyocera on the surface of Sakasamaike Pond in Kasai City, Hyogo Prefecture. The station consists of 9000 solar panels and has a capacity of 2.3 MW. It is capable of providing electricity to 820 households.

1 MW is the capacity of the largest solar power plant in the Arctic Circle, which was put into operation last summer in the village of Bagatai, Verkhoyanskiy ulus of Yakutia. It covers an area equal to nine football fields. The facility will save 300 tons of diesel fuel each year, or 16 million rubles.

9.9 GW - this is the capacity of solar power plants commissioned in China in the first nine months of this year. As a result, the total capacity of all solar power plants in the Celestial Empire reached 37.95 GW, which is also a world record.

9800 kWh - this is how much electricity was generated in a year by the world's first solar-solar cycle path SolaRoad, built in the Dutch town of Crommeny. The engineers and designers behind it for the Dutch Organization for Practical Research hope that the success of their brainchild will spur authorities around the world to use the city's infrastructure to generate renewable energy.

4.5 km - at this height above sea level, the highest-altitude Geothermal Power Plant in the world will be located, the construction of which began last summer in the Antofagasta region in northern Chile. The station, named Cerro Pabellon, has a capacity of 48 MW. With a capacity of 340 GWh per year, it will supply more than 160,000 Chilean households with electricity.

$ 100 billion - this amount the world community will invest annually in the development of renewable energy in poor countries. This decision was made at the UN climate conference held in Paris.

reprinted from the site "5th element"