Mingyang Smart Energy, the largest private wind turbine maker in China, is pioneering a new type of offshore wind turbine foundation that features a net cage for fish farming. This jacket foundation – a lattice-truss fixed wind turbine foundation with four tubular legs connected by diagonal struts – will be installed at the 500 megawatt (MW) Mingyang Qingzhou 4 offshore wind farm off the coast of Yangjiang in the South China Sea later this year.
The fish will be kept in the net cage in the open sea, but they’ll be confined, making it easier to feed, observe, and harvest them. Mingyang said in a LinkedIn post that up to 150,000 fish will be raised in 5,000 cubic meters of water in its net cage. This typhoon-resistant wind turbine/fish farm will be smart: it will have such remote functions as “automated feeding, monitoring, detection, and collection.”
Mingyang believes that the fish raised in the turbine’s net cage will be comparable to wild fish and will be less impacted by nearshore marine pollution. This innovative solution could help to address the potential conflict between fisheries and offshore wind farms about space, as fishing is usually forbidden around wind turbines.
This is an exciting development in the renewable energy industry and could have far-reaching implications for both the environment and the economy. We’ll be watching to see if this is something that catches on. What do you think of fish farms on offshore wind turbines? Let us know in the comments below.
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