The world’s biggest wind turbine has broken the record for single-day power generation.

The world’s largest wind turbine has smashed the record for the most power produced by a single turbine in a day.

Offshore from Fujian Province, China, the giant Goldwind GWH252-16MW towers above the sea.

On 1 September, the mammoth turbine – which has a 252-metre diameter – produced 384.1 megawatt hours (MWh) in 24 hours, as a typhoon hammered southeast China.

This is enough to power roughly 170,000 homes, or 38 million LEDs, or 2.2 million kilometres driven in an electric car.

It exceeds the previous record of 364 MWh, set in Denmark in August.

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