24 September 2025, 17:00 local time – Super-Typhoon Ragasa, the most intense storm yet recorded in the 2025 north-west Pacific season, made landfall on Hailing Island, Yangjiang, Guangdong Province. Packing sustained winds above 17 Beaufort for more than three days, Ragasa posed a once-in-a-generation test for China’s offshore wind fleet. All 1345 Ming Yang turbines - representing 16 different types - operating in the northern South China Sea, spread across Guangdong, Hainan and Guangxi, lay directly or indirectly in the storm’s path. 

OceanX

The fleet includes the world’s largest single-body floating wind platform now in commercial service, OceanX, the world’s first typhoon-resistant floating turbine Three Gorges Pioneer and the first integrated wind-and-aquaculture system MingYu No.1. Leveraging Ming Yang’s typhoon-centric design philosophy and decade-long floating expertise, all installations remained structurally intact throughout the event, re-confirming the company’s global leadership in typhoon-resilient offshore wind technology.

Gusts peaked at 50 m/s off Jieyang, Shanwei and Huizhou, where more than 400 Ming Yang turbines operate. At Yangjiang – the landfall point – recorded gusts exceeded 70 m/s. OceanX’s single-point mooring and aerodynamic-weather vaning control allowed the platform to yaw 360° in perfect alignment with the shifting eye-wall, cutting ultimate tower-base loads by 40 %. MingYu No.1, designed to a 50-year return-period typhoon environment, simultaneously protected both the steelwork and the fish stock, limiting cage-volume loss even inside the eyewall.

Ming Yang’s typhoon pedigree dates back to 2007, when the company commissioned the world’s first typhoon-resistant 1.5 MW turbine at Xuwen, Guangdong. Since then every generation of Ming Yang offshore rotor has been validated in major tropical cyclones.

OceanX

An 18-year, 40-typhoon database covering 30 turbine types and 100 wind farms underpins Ming Yang’s fully-coupled high-fidelity aero-hydro-servo-elastic simulation platform. The company deploys storm-chasing algorithms that forecast gust evolution, dynamically re-optimise power and rpm set-points, and harvest energy right up to the safe load envelope – turning former “typhoon no-go” zones into high-yield wind basins.

MingYu No.1

From Hato and Mangkhut to Yagi and now Ragasa, Ming Yang’s typhoon-resistant technology has repeatedly demonstrated that utility-scale offshore wind can be deployed safely and profitably in the planet’s most severe tropical-cyclone corridors.