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The world's first typhoon-resistant floating offshore wind turbine has successfully connected to the grid in Yangjiang, South China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday, signaling that China has taken the global lead in research, manufacturing, installation, and operability of large-scale typhoon-resistant floating offshore wind turbines.

The project "Sanxia Yinling Hao" (lit: Three Gorges Lead) is consisted of the typhoon-resistant floating offshore wind turbine and China's first floating wind turbine platform, with an installed capacity of 5.5 megawatt per unit.

The unit is designed based on extreme wave flows that only happen once in every 50 years and is therefore able to resist typhoons up to category 17. 

Analysts said the platform will make a contribution to China's exploration of typhoon-resistant technology for offshore wind turbines and other deep sea exploration projects.