The Danish Vestas wind of system A/S (stock exchange Copenhagen: VWS.CO) is the world largest manufacturer of wind energy plants. With a conversion of 3.583 billion euro it had a market share of 35% in the year 2005 world-wide. In Germany the enterprise in Husum and allium hammer (rotor blade manufacturing) is active. At the end of of 2005 had Vestas of 10,618 coworkers in 24 countries, among them Denmark, Germany, Sweden, Great Britain, Italy, China, Japan, USA and Australia.

2004 bought in Randers resident enterprise the large Danish competitor NEG Micon. A third of the conversion is produced in markets outside of Europe.

2004 were Vestas in Germany with a market share of 30,0% second largest offerer behind the German manufacturer Enercon from Aurich with 41,8%. The entire achievement in the year 2004 of the set up WEAs amounted to 2784 MW.

The momentarily most efficient Vestasanlage is the V90-3.0 MW, which has a rotor diameter of 90 meters and a rated output of 3 MW. Plants to 4.5 MW are for offshore range in planning.

Installation types

Vestas V80

The V80 with 80 m Rotorduchmesser and 2 MW rated output belongs at present to the usually-sold wind energy plants of Vestas.

Vestas V90

The V90 with 90 m rotor diameters exists in two variants. In the inland it is equipped with 2 MW a generator and for with a 3 MW generator. A characteristic is that the transmission is angeflascht to the machine carrier directly and so that a separate main storage of the driveshaft is void.

Vestas V100

The V100 was established so far only in small number of items and has 2.75 MW rated output.

Vestas V120

The V120 is at present in the development and is to have 4.5 MW rated output. It is essentially based on the Nm 110 (4.2 MW), from which so far only one prototype stands in Denmark.

See also

Wind energy equipment manufacturer

Related links

• www.vestas.de - Vestas Germany
• uk.finance.yahoo.com - current market prices

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