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Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines that was founded in 1945. The company operates manufacturing plants in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, India, Italy, Romania, the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Australia, China, Brazil, Poland [2] and the United States, [3] and employs 29,000 people globally.
The Vestas V164 is a three-bladed offshore wind turbine, produced by Vestas, with a nameplate capacity of up to 10 megawatts, a world record. [1] Vestas revealed the V164's design in 2011 with the first prototype unit operated at Østerild in northern Denmark in January 2014. [ 2 ]
Turbine Manufacturer(s) Turbine Model(s) Project Commissioning Year Strike Price Build Cost Capacity Factor Depth range km to shore Owner Refs. Barrow: England 90 30 Vestas: V90-3.0MW July 2006 £123m 35.9% [1] 15–20 7 Ørsted [w 1] [2] Beatrice: Scotland
The wind farm contains 43 Vestas V150 turbines, each of which can generate 4.2 MW of electricity. [3] They each have a 155-metre hub height [4] and a rotor diameter of 150 metres, resulting in a tip height of 230 metres. [2] [5] The cost of the project is estimated to be around $450 million. [6]
This list also includes the most powerful onshore wind turbines, although they are relatively small compared to the largest offshore ones. As of June 2024, the most powerful wind turbine in operation is the world's first 18MW semi-direct drive offshore wind turbine, developed by Dongfang Electric Corporation. [1] In October 2024, Dongfang ...
The Vestas V90-2MW is a three-bladed upwind horizontal-axis wind turbine designed and manufactured by Vestas [citation needed] with versions for wind classes IIA and IIIA. [ 1 ] The V90-2MW has a tubular steel tower between 80 metres (260 ft) and 125 metres (410 ft) height.
The wind farm consists of 240 Vestas 1.65 MW wind turbines and is owned and operated by EDP Renewables North America. [1] Total cost of Twin Groves was approximately $700 million. [ 5 ] The towers are spread out over 22,000 acres (8,900 ha) of McLean County , [ 1 ] near the villages of Arrowsmith, Ellsworth, and Saybrook.
The wind farm consists of 46 Vestas V126 turbines, each with rated capacity of 3.45MW. The turbines were installed in five rows spread over 7 hectares (17 acres). Each turbine is mounted on a tubular steel tower measuring 117 metres (384 ft) high and weighing 313 tonnes (308 long tons; 345 short tons). [1]