Faculty of management

Vestas
Mariut Florin Ionut
Mandea Andrei
Bucharest
06.12.2019
Wind power or wind energy is
the use of wind to provide the
mechanical power through
wind turbines to turn electric
generators and traditionally to
do other work, like milling or
pumping. Wind power is a
sustainable and renewable
energy, and has a much smaller
impact on the environment
compared to burning fossil fuels
 Vestas is the
energy
industry’s
global partner
on
sustainable
energy
solutions
The Danish company was
founded in 1898
• Starting out as blacksmiths, the
Hansen family built a
manufacturing company that by
1968 was exporting hydraulic
cranes to 65 countries. It’s a story
of willpower, wind, fire and the
ability to make the right move at
the right time
1968 Vestas’s biggest
ever export
product
With a little inventiveness,
Vestas adapts to the sudden
demand for hydraulic cranes
for light trucks. This will
become Vestas’ first export,
with 96 percent of Vestas’
production output exported
to 65 countries
1978 Experimenting with the whisk

Mean while to avoid ridicule from customers

and suppliers, Vestas carries out initial wind
turbine experiments in secret. The first
prototype looks like a giant egg whisk - and fails
to produce sustainable, economical electricity.

Keen , in another Danish town, two black

smiths, Karl Erik Jørgensen and Henrik Stiesdal,
are developing a wind turbine but don’t have the
money to go into production
 1979 The first successful turbine

Vestas sells and installs its first turbine – with a 10-metre rotor
and capacity of 30 KW – and the first costumers begin to benefit
from clean, sustainable electricity from wind. The above photo
shows one of the earlier turbines, the HVK15/55 kW, being
dismantled in Lem, Denmark in 1981
In 1995 is going offshore
Vestas constructs the offshore
wind turbine farm “Tunoe Knob”
in Denmark. One of the first
offshore wind farms ever built, it
has significant potential: moving
off shore increases energy
production by 15 percent.
Although water is new ground for
the “farmers” from Vestas, they
still manage to install 10 turbines
in just five days. With 20 metre-
long blades, each turbine can
produce 500 kW of electricity
2001 The Vestas is selected for the first large offshore
wind farm in the North Sea, the Horns Reef
world’s project in Denmark. Eighty of Vestas’ new
largest V80s will supply power to about 150,000
offshore Danish households. In the spring, Vestas also
wind farm signs its first contracts in Costa Rica and Iran.
 We design, manufacture, install, and
service wind turbines across the globe, and
with 97 GW of wind turbines in 79
countries, we have installed more wind
power than anyone else.
 Conclusion

• Wind energy is part, together with solar energy, of

flowing waters, that resulting from biological processes
and geothermal heat, from renewable energies, which
can be captured and used for domestic and industrial
purposes. The renewable nature of these energy sources
comes from the fact that the sources of these energies
are renewable, as opposed to coal, for example, limited
as deposits.
 Readings
Tom Delreux and Sander Happaerts: Environmental Policy and
Politics in the European Union (The European Union
Series) March 2016

Tehnica utilizării energiei eoliene. Editura MAST

Horst Crome
 Internet Resources
• https://www.vestas.com/en/about/powered-
by#!grid_0_content_1_Container
• https://www.vestas.com/en/about/pioneering
-the-industry
• https://www.vestas.com/en/products/2%20m
w%20platform#!
• https://www.schoenherr.eu/fileadmin/tx_new
s/download_wind_energy_report_romania_2
014.pdf
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