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- Sep 6, 201190% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Sinovel Installs China's First 5-Megawatt Offshore Wind Turbine at Donghai Bridge
- The SL5000 became China's first indigenously developed 5MW offshore wind turbine, added as a standalone demonstration unit (Phase IIB) alongside the Donghai Bridge wind farm's existing 3MW Sinovel turbines.
- China's largest offshore double-boom crane ship and its largest crawler crane worked together to lift and assemble the turbine's tower, nacelle, and impeller, each weighing hundreds of tons.
- Assembly had to work around the ninth and thirteenth tropical storms of the 2011 Western Pacific season, with crews racing narrow weather windows to secure the tower to its offshore base.
- The turbine, over 150 meters tall with blades as long as a 40-story building, was lowered onto its base beside the Donghai (East China Sea) Bridge on the evening of September 6, 2011.
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- [1]90%youtube.com/watch?v=za7kbChoqiMyoutube.com· Posted Sep 22, 2026· Starts Sep 6, 2011 ✓· 33% of score
The documentary's own dated footage places the SL5000's installation on the evening of September 6, 2011 beside the Donghai Bridge, and power-technology.com[2]'s independent project profile of the Shanghai Dong Hai Bridge wind farm separately confirms a single Sinovel SL5000 5MW turbine as the farm's Phase IIB.
- [2]70%Power Plant Profile: Shanghai Dong Hai Bridge, Chinapower-technology.com· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
Independently lists the Donghai Bridge wind farm's Phase IIB as a single Sinovel SL5000 5MW turbine, confirming the machine's existence and location even though it does not give the exact installation day.[1]
- [3]55%Project Profile: Shanghai Donghai Bridgerenewableenergyworld.com· Added Sep 22, 2026· 33% of score
Reports that Sinovel finished manufacturing its first 5MW SL5000 turbines in October 2010 and expected to erect the machine in early 2011, consistent with the video’s own footage of a September 2011 offshore installation.[1]
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