Category: Market

Vestas and NEG Micon merge to form the world’s largest turbine manufacturer, Vestas

Multinational corporation General Electric buys Enron Wind Corp, with both US and European manufacturing bases

Horns Rev offshore wind farm opens in Danish North Sea (80 x Vestas 2 MW turbines)

First large-scale offshore wind farm, Middelgrunden, is erected off Copenhagen. 8,500 shareholders in Danish cooperative share 50% ownership of the 20 Bonus 2 MW turbines

Vestas floated as a public company on the Copenhagen stock exchange

Enercon celebrates erection of the company’s 1,000th E-40 turbine

The Iranian government—the world’s fifth largest oil producer—orders its first wind farm, comprising 300 kW Nordtank turbines

Danish manufacturer Nordex erects prototype of 1.5 MW turbine in Denmark. Vestas and German company Tacke soon follow suit

Spanish company Gamesa starts joint venture with Vestas to manufacture wind turbines in Spain

France installs its first wind farm in the Tramonte wind corridor of the western Mediterranean using four Vestas 500 kW turbines