First offshore wind farm (Vindeby)
Primer parque eólico marino (Vindeby)
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- Vindeby, Lolland, Denmark
- Credited to
- DONG Energy (Danish utility)
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
Eleven 450 kW turbines placed 2 km off the coast in shallow Baltic waters. They showed that wind turbines could operate at sea, where winds are stronger and steadier.
It was decommissioned in 2017.
What it led to
- North Sea wind farms
- monopile foundations and floating turbines
- higher-capacity-factor wind power