When was the first offshore wind turbine installed

After the commissioning of Vindeby in , the growth in new offshore wind farms was slow. Over the next ten years, only a few more offshore wind farms — in Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK — were constructed, the largest being 40MW.

Since the farms were considered pilot projects, the political focus was on technical feasibility rather than on comparing costs to other sources of renewable energy. The first offshore wind farms were relatively simple; onshore turbines based on concrete foundations in shallow water.

They were typically ordered by governments and constructed by utilities, sometimes with companies entering into consortia. While not at industrial scale by any standards, the first offshore wind farms provided valuable learnings. Fundamentally, the projects proved the feasibility of the concept of offshore wind power, despite being harder to install and access.

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Contact Siemens Gamesa. Contact our offshore wind experts here: info siemensgamesa. Strong future for offshore wind power in the global energy mix. The grant program is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of , and is only available for projects placed in service by the end of Charts of new and cumulative wind power capacity by country are as follows:. By , Japan intends to have up to 80 floating wind turbines off its coast near Fukushima.

It has a power capacity of 1, megawatts, with plans to increase that to 3, megawatts. It includes wind turbines at the end of The London Array becomes the largest offshore wind farm in the world. It includes wind turbines for a total capacity of megawatts of power capacity, enough to cover the annual electricity consumption of , British homes.

Wind power has come a long way, but it still has a ton of room to grow. Its growth in the coming decades is projected to be much larger than it was up till now.

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