Most power generated by a single wind turbine in 24 hours

The most power generated by a single wind turbine in a day is 384.1 megawatt-hours, achieved by the Goldwind GWH252-16MW in the Zhangpu Liuao Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Fujian, China, on 1 September 2023.

The turbine in question has a massive 252-metre (826.8 ft) rotor diameter and an output of 16 MW – it was the largest in the world between 28 June and 18 July 2023, when it was surpassed by the even larger Mingyang MySE 16-260.

The unprecedented power output was generated by storm-force winds as Typhoon Haikui, a very strong typhoon (equal to a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale), approached the coast.

The Chinese offshore wind farm industry has to contend with more extreme weather conditions than its European counterpart. Most of the coastline suitable for offshore wind installations in China is also periodically subject to typhoons. Companies such as Goldwind and Mingyang fit their strongly built turbines with autonomous systems that control things like blade angle and generator torque in real time, allowing the turbines to survive and even operate through powerful storms.

The Goldwind turbine broke the record set by Siemens' Gamesa 14-222 DD offshore prototype, which generated 359 megawatt hours in just one day during stormy weather off the coast of Denmark in October 2022.