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Offshore Wind Farms
Denmark's Vindeby farm (1991) puts eleven turbines in the sea, where wind is stronger and steadier than on land.
Open in the interactive tree →Vindeby's eleven 450 kW turbines started a technology that moved to turbines of 10 MW and more on foundations or floating platforms. Offshore wind now supplies a growing share of European electricity.
Prerequisites
- Modern Wind Turbines~1980
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- All-Renewable Energy Supply2050s?Offshore wind is a main building block of renewable supply