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Dong Energy Rounds 1,000 Offshore Wind Turbines

Fredericia, Denmark

From 2016 to 2020, Dong Energy is set to build more offshore wind capacity than it built altogether in the preceding 25 years. Today, every single one of the biggest wind turbines delivers almost twice as much energy as the first offshore wind farm.

Offshore wind capacity recently marked a milestone when Dong Energy commissioned offshore wind turbine number 1,000. It happened at the German offshore wind farm Gode Wind 2, which is one of the many wind farms that Dong Energy fully or partly owns and operates in Denmark, the UK and Germany.

Developments have been moving forward at a rapid pace since the first Danish offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 0.45 MW started producing power 25 years ago at the offshore wind farm Vindeby. Today, each of the largest wind turbines in the market



Source: IWR Online, 26 Oct 2016

 


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