CRRC has showcased its 20 MW floating offshore wind turbine at the WindEnergy Hamburg fair in late September, featuring a 260-meter rotor. Together with the dual-rotor 16.6 MW turbine which Ming Yang deployed at sea several months ago, we are observing a trend. The turbines are more powerful than ever – CRRC has a 25 MW turbine in the works, and this week saw a 26 MW turbine announced as a trial install at a wind farm in China – but floating wind (and even offshore wind) remain expensive because of the installation infrastructure and works. That’s even as onshore reaches new records for low levelized cost of electricity, with quite a large fleet of onshore Chinese wind farms being…