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Horns Rev 1 turbine reaches 100GWh

By: Lewis Holdsworth 07/05/2015 DONG Energy

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Wind turbine number 6 located in the westernmost row of the Horns Rev 1 Offshore Wind Farm off Jutland's southwestern coast at Blåvandshuk has generated 100GWh of electricity - or the equivalent of 100 million KWh, joining the exclusive club of a handful of other wind turbines worldwide that have generated just as much electricity as this has since we installed it.

The offshore wind farm was constructed in 2002 by Elsam and at the time, Jens Wittrock Bonefeld handled the project manager role, which would correspond to an EPC Director today. At the time, Bonefeld reported to Flemming Thomsen who was the programme manager of the project and had the overall responsibility for Elsam's small but growing wind business.

Bonefeld said: "Horns Rev 1 was a pioneer project. It was the first large-scale offshore wind farm ever to be constructed and our project team consisting of a total of approximately 50 employees had to virtually start from scratch in terms of design, technology, surveys and what was otherwise required to construct the wind farm."

At the time, the Danish authorities instructed Elsam to construct Horns Rev 1 to the west while the Danish energy company Energi E2 was instructed to construct a project to the east. This project is known as Nysted Offshore Wind Farm today. The two projects attracted a lot of attention, not least internally where the two companies, together with the former Dong, saw the potential within the offshore wind farm area and ended up securing individual project rights outside Denmark.

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