World's first 16 MW offshore wind turbine erected in China

This also required the world's first new generation 2,000-ton offshore wind installation vessel 'Baihetan' to lift the rotor blades, each 123 meters long. The Baihetan has four 120-meter-long "legs" that ram into the seabed to provide stability while the rotor blades are attached at lofty heights, China Three Gorges said.