Targets ✅
Declarations ✅
Climate goals ✅
Wind farms ❌
Turning ambitions into wind farms means rethinking offshore wind auctions. With 50 GW+ up for auction in 2024, action is urgent. Later is too late.
“Great talk with Hon’ble PM
@narendramodi
on innovative ideas that can push the envelope in the
#energytransition
. Very insightful and we are very much looking forward to a continued collaboration and increased footprint in India.”
@Vestas
’ Henrik Andersen.
The V236-15.0 MW™ prototype started producing clean energy two weeks ago. In case you missed it we want to take the opportunity to share some beautiful images of our most powerful wind turbine.
Learn more about the V236-15.0 MW™:
The V236-15.0 MW™ prototype nacelle has been completed at our factory in Lindø and is ready for testing.
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#Vestas
will install the V236-15.0 MW offshore prototype at the Østerild National test centre in
#Denmark
. Stretching 280m into the air with an output of 80 GWh/year, the prototype will be the tallest & most powerful turbine in the world once installed ➡
The V236-15.0 MW™ blades arrived at Østerild National Test Centre. The 115.5m blades for the prototype have been produced at Vestas’ blades factory in Nakskov, Denmark.
With the three blades installed, the turbine will be ready to produce its first kWh.
#Vestas
launches the 🆕 V236-15.0 MW, combining the wind industry’s largest rotor with the highest nominal rating. The V236-15.0 MW will set a new industry benchmark and take the next step towards leadership in
#offshore
wind.
Read more ➡️
The V236-15.0 MW™ prototype reaches 15 MW nominal power rating. Installed in December 2022 the turbine produced its first kWh shortly after. After a production ramp-up period according to the testing and verification campaign, it reached 15 MW for the very first time last week.
🆕 The V236-15.0 MW prototype turbine has now been fully installed and has produced its first kWh of power at the Østerild National test centre in Denmark.
Read more here ➡️
Great news from Denmark just in with a historic political agreement for offshore wind! Up to 14 GW will be installed within the next 10 years. The world leading Danish supply chain is ready to deliver
🎉
#Vestas
has installed almost 20 percent of the world’s more than 500 GW of installed
#windenergy
capacity. That's +67,000 turbines in around 80 countries across six continents over 40 years! 🌍
#Celebrating100GW
More here:
Presenting the NEW LEGO® Creator Expert Vestas Wind Turbine: A key collaboration between the
@LEGO_Group
and
@Vestas
, the world leader in
#sustainableenergy
solutions. More:
Available November 23rd. Stay tuned to find out how you can get your hands on one!
+100 km/h wind tornadic supercell hit Vestas turbines in the north of France 🌪️
At Vestas, we know wind better than anyone else. This was a clear example. Our turbines withstood the shock and produced energy at nominal power during the storm.
📷 Rick Bekker, storm chaser.
The V236-15.0 MW™ prototype nacelle arrives at Østerild National Test Centre. The installation at the test site is well underway, with all tower sections already installed.
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Exactly two years ago today, we launched our offshore flagship turbine, the V236-15.0 MW™. Fast forward to today…
☑️ Prototype complete
☑️ +9.3 GW preferred supplier agreements
☑️ Offshore wind turbine of the year 2022 by Windpower Monthly
Did you know?
🏆 With +136 GW of
#windturbines
in 84 countries, we’re celebrating
#GlobalWindDay
this year by asking you to choose your favourite.
From now until 15th June, you’ll be able to vote for your 🔝
#Vestas
wind farm from around the world!
🇺🇸 Just in: Our largest order to date in the U.S. market and the largest single onshore project globally. We're thrilled to announce a 1.1 GW order with Pattern Energy the SunZia Wind Project. Read more:
@Vestas
has been named the most sustainable company in the world in the 18th annual
#Global100
ranking published by
@corporateknight
🏆 This award is a testament to both our existing
#Sustainability
achievements, and our ongoing progress. Read more here:
Together with our partners,
#Vestas
has installed 100 GW of wind capacity. That’s over 67,000 turbines in around 80 countries across six continents over 40 years!
What does 💯 mean to you?
#Celebrating100GW
#Vestas
unveils circularity solution to end landfill for
#windturbine
blades ♻️
A new chemical process facilitates making epoxy-based turbine blades circular, without the need for changing the design or composition of blade material.
Learn more:
Discover the
#Vestas
V236-15.0 MW⤵
📏 The world’s largest swept area (+43,000 m2)
⚙️ Producing around 80 GWh/year
🏘️ Enough to power ~20,000 European households
🌫️ Saving ~38,000 tonnes of CO2
🚗 Equivalent of removing 25,000 cars from the road /year!
➡
Last week we launched the V236-15.0 MW.
📏 The world's largest & most powerful offshore wind turbine ever designed. 📐
⚽️ Did you know? Its swept area (+43,000 m2) is equivalent to the surface of 6 football fields❗️
Find out more 👉:
#Vestas
has installed the first V150-4.2 MW™ in Østerild, Denmark 🇩🇰. The V150-4.2 MW™ produced its first KW of energy on 14th January 2019, and is expected to offer a 21% increase in annual energy production*. More info:
With more than 900 MW of either installed capacity or under construction,
#Vestas
strengthens its presence in Argentina with new assembly facility, in the Buenos Aires province, delivering local content and creating hundreds of jobs.
For over a year, we have followed the journey of the V236-15.0 MW™ prototype through a mini-series. In today’s final episode, we showcase the impressive work of transporting and installing the prototype.
Watch the full "Episode 3: The Installation" now!➡️
🔴 We have completed the first
#EnVentus
V162-5.6 MW Blade set dispatch for our Simo Sarvisuo project in northern Finland.
Each blade is:
📏 79 meters long and
⚖️ weighs 22.7 tons.
#Vestas
will have 81 blades delivered to this project for 27 new coming EnVentus turbines!
1/2 Vestas condemns the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine. Many of our employees and their families have been displaced and fear for their safety and for their future. We worry about the well-being of our colleagues, customers and business partners in the besieged country.
We are proud to announce that Vestas has been recognized as the most sustainable company in the energy industry in the
@corporateknight
#Global100
ranking. This achievement is a testament to our unwavering commitment to
#sustainability
, which is at the core of everything we do.
Making history 🇺🇸
For the first time, wind energy was the second-highest source of electricity in the US.
@EIAgov
says turbines generated +2,000 GWh on March 29 edging out nuclear and coal.
#Vestas
is thrilled to have contributed by installing 23,000+ turbines in the US.
#Vestas
introduces its V155-3.3 MW turbine variant suited for India’s wind market, expanding its production footprint in the country. While the new turbine is globally applicable, it initially targets low & ultra-low wind projects in India & USA.
Read more:
@narendramodi
We're thankful to be able to exchange ideas and ambitions with you, Prime Minister, as you are equally committed to building a more
#sustainablefuture
. Today we're launching the V155 turbine as a first step towards this.
Last week we finalised the installation on Moray East wind farm, Scotland’s largest wind project. 🏆
Today, we want to share how the calm after the storm looks like with these stunning "office" views.
📷 Christopher Shaw, Vestas' offshore service technician.
Fifteen V150 blades manufactured in Daimiel, Spain 🇪🇸, are on their way to the 21 MW TuuliWatti project in Finland 🇫🇮. This wind park will be the first in the world to feature the
#Vestas
V150-4.2 MW turbine, one of the highest-producing, low-wind turbines available.
We've signed the largest onshore turbine supply agreement with
@acasadosventos
. 🙌🏽
Comprising of 2 projects in 🇧🇷's Serra do Tigre and in Babilônia Centro, this onshore order is slated to be the largest in Vestas’ history, globally, and in LATAM. 💪
At Vestas’ blades factory in Nakskov 🇩🇰, the very first V236-15.0 MW™ blade is currently being produced!
Once completed, the 115.5m long blade will undergo a thorough inspection process to validate the production capability of the design for critical-to-quality characteristics.
#Vestas
has been selected as preferred supplier for the 2.1 GW Empire Wind 1 & 2 offshore wind project off the coast of New York 🇺🇸
➡ 138 x V236-15.0 MW turbines
➡ Partnering with
@Equinor
and
@bp_plc
to support New York's renewable energy goals
➡
Why Wind? Because the future won't wait.
As energy consumption soars, how will we meet the demand? Fossil fuels are a finite resource that will gradually disappear. The natural replacement is sweeping freely around the earth. Wind.
Happy
#GlobalWindDay
!
#Vestas
has successfully installed the first offshore wind turbine at the Akita Noshiro Offshore Wind Project! Japan’s first commercial scale offshore project features thirty-three V117-4.2MW™ turbines, totalling 140MW.
Discover our offshore solutions➡️
#Vestas
is pleased that the Inflation Reduction Act was passed by Congress today! The $369 billion clean energy tax section of the package will be instrumental in expanding domestic manufacturing and deploying onshore and offshore wind energy across the US.
What a remarkable weekend of electric racing at the
#DiriyahEPrix
. 👏
@MercedesEQFE
made their official debut to the sport in Saudi Arabia! 📸
Read more on the team’s double podium success at the weekend:
#PoweredbyVestas
In another big step towards a more sustainable future, we have partnered with
@ArcelorMittal
to launch a low-emission steel offering that is significantly reducing carbon emissions in wind turbine tower production.
Supported by ice-breakers, these
#Vestas
V162 blades were transported recently to our Simo project in Finland 🇫🇮.
❄️While spring is here for most of us, it is still freezing cold on some of our Nordics sites. The last 50 metres took 1.5 hours due to ice!
Our Isle of Wight facility just made its 1000th
#offshore
wind blade, and
#Vestas
has big plans if we are successful in the UK's CfD Round 4. These potentially include expanding our
#IsleofWight
facility and creating a new factory in England's north-east.
We are building the V236-15.0 MW™ prototype. Watch the full Episode 1 now ➡️
Through a mini-series of four episodes, we follow the V236-15.0 MW™ prototype journey.
Yesterday, the first five Volkswagen ID Buzzes were handed over to Vestas. These electric cargo vehicles will support us to electrifying our service fleet to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 without the use of carbon offsets.
#VolkswagenCommercialVehicles
1.14 GW. That's the firm order we've received from Baltic Power - Poland's largest single
#offshorewind
project to date. The project, a joint venture between ORLEN S.A. and Northland Power Inc. will... (1/3)
In celebration with Synergy and Bright Energy Investments, all 51 of our powerful V136-3.45 MW turbines have now been installed at the Warradarge Wind Farm in Western Australia 👏💡
Vestas has received a milestone order from Hirtshals Havnefond for a 17 MW project in Denmark that will be the country’s first utility-scale subsidy-free wind park.
More here:
Since 1992, 2x
#Vestas
V27-225 kW turbines have been producing
#cleanpower
in Saxony,
#Germany
. Due to their high quality and durability, our V27 turbines are still running smoothly after 30 years on the grid in an area of
#Saxony
with high wind speeds, with no end in sight!
Driven by his vision to make the future of music more sustainable, Danish music artist
@LukasGraham
has teamed up with
@Vestas
who will deliver a battery concept to power his upcoming In the Round tour. Learn more at and stay tuned over the next weeks!
Last Friday 1st November,
#Vestas
CEO, Henrik Andersen, hosted Team Principal of
@MercedesEQFE
Team, Ian James, in Aarhus to unveil a replica of the Mercedes-Benz EQ Silver Arrow 01 to an audience of hundreds of employees. Check out the best images from the day!
#PoweredbyVestas
#Vestas
introduces the
#EnVentus
V172-7.2 MW™, enhancing performance in low to medium wind conditions.
Based on the same
#modularised
nacelle as the V162-7.2 MW™ and the V236-15.0 MW™, we’re committed to driving industry scalability through modularity.
Great achievement as
@LTWPOfficial
now has 236 Vestas wind turbines up and running at
#LakeTurkana
! Congratulations to everyone involved - let's keep working together to provide
#sustainablesolutions
in Kenya and the rest of the African continent.
Vestas reaches 5 GW of installed wind capacity in Italy 🇮🇹
With over 44 per cent of the total installed capacity, we lead the expansion of wind energy in the country. Our solid supply chain and over 1,200 employees make us a contributor to quality, long-term employment in Italy.
We've now completed the first installation of a V164-9.5 MW turbine on a fixed platform in UK waters at the Moray East project off the coast of
#Scotland
. Thanks to our project partners for their
#collaboration
on reaching this milestone! Learn more:
We have one job at
#COP27
It takes up to a decade to secure permission for a wind energy project. This year, we need to end permitting delays and shorten the permitting process for
#windenergy
.
How? We need an unlikely hero.
Find out more at
🌎 / 🇵🇱: Advancing on
#offshorewind
with a second factory in Poland. We plan to establish a new blade factory in Szczecin, Poland to produce blades for our flagship offshore wind turbine, the V236-15.0 MW.
Read more:
#Vestas
to establish a new assembly factory in Szczecin, Poland, near the Baltic Sea. The factory will assemble nacelles and hubs for the V236-15.0 MW™ and create between 600 and 700 direct jobs.
Learn more:
#BalticPower
#REPowerEU
#PowerTheSolution
🏆 A new milestone has been reached at
#Vestas
' Assembly Factory in
#Cear
á,
#Brazil
. This week, we reached 2 GW of V150-4.2 MW nacelles produced! Congratulations to the team - great achievements come from collaboration!
#Vestas
has completed the first EnVentus nacelle prototype. Over the past two months, 60 Vestas employees assembled the V150-5.6 MW prototype in the Vestas factory in Ringkøbing, Denmark.
#Vestas
has received a 252 MW order to power an undisclosed wind project in
#Australia
🇦🇺. The order consists of 42 V162-6.2 MW turbines in 6.0 MW operating mode from the
#EnVentus
platform. With this order, Vestas surpasses 10 GW order intake for 2022.
Vestas selected as preferred supplier for the up to 1.6 GW Nordseecluster wind project in Germany by the joint venture between
@RWE_AG
and
@northlandpower
.
We will provide and service 104 units of the V236-15.0 MW offshore wind turbine.
Learn more:
The production of the V236-15.0 MW™ prototype nacelle is well underway and the machined hub is ready for assembly at Vestas’ factory in Lindø, Denmark.
Happy 2023! 🎊🎉
Thanks to all our partners, colleagues and friends that helped us
#PowerTheSolution
from everyone at Vestas.
Here's to a successful and a more sustainable 2023. 🥂
The 45th
#windturbine
has been installed at Triton Knoll, bringing the installation of the 90-turbine
#offshore
project to its halfway mark. Once fully operational, the 857 MW
#windfarm
will provide
#renewableenergy
for 800,000 households in the UK.
📸 Michael Brooks & Luke Myers
Vestas strengthens partnership with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and acquires MHI Vestas Offshore wind, making an emphatic long-term move in offshore wind energy to become a leading player by 2025.
Read more:
A new Vestas partnership collides industry and research to support circularity of wind turbines blades. The project contributes to a circular economy for wind energy and saves valuable resources for future generations 🌏
Read more:
Vestas has secured a 443 MW deal with SSE Renewables for the Viking wind project on the Shetland Islands in the Northern Atlantic that will be Vestas’ largest stand-alone wind park order in Europe to date.
Read more:
😮 How to transport a 79m blade. Did you know that a completed
#windturbine
actually has approx. 25,000 components? These are assembled to build the different electromechanical & structural systems of a turbine that are later transported to site as the blades, nacelle & tower.
#Vestas
is the first company to reach 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ GW under service, with more than 47,000
#windturbines
including multibrand, and around 10,000 dedicated service colleagues in a global network across 69 countries.
#Celebrating100GW
Read the full story:
Our blade factory in
#Lauchhammer
, Germany, recently reached a huge milestone by shipping the 1⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣th set of V117 blades to our customers! This means that they've produced 3000 V117 blades in total already, not forgetting the many other turbine types as well! 🎉
This week, the
#Vestas
V150-4.2 MW
#windturbine
prototype was installed at the Østerild National test centre in Denmark 🇩🇰. Stretching more than 200 metres into the air, the turbine will undergo an extensive test & verification programme before entering full-scale production.
#Vestas
has completed the installation of two V162-6.2 MW wind turbines at
@EdpRenewables
' Barão São João wind park in Lagos, Portugal.
The
#EnVentus
units have become the largest and most powerful onshore wind turbines in the Iberian Peninsula. ⤵️
Introducing
#EnVentus
,
#Vestas
' innovative modular platform, which encompasses the next generation of wind turbines, including our new V150-5.6 MW and V162-5.6 MW variants.
Read more here:
We're still
#Celebrating100GW
with you! 💚
To us, 100 GW of
#windenergy
from @[Vestas] wind turbines means saving the world 🌍 from annual CO2 emissions equal to those produced by 141 billion pounds of burned coal or 298 million barrels of oil.
#Vestas
is the first manufacturer to commit to zero-waste
#windturbines
. This is ambitious but necessary if we want to avoid even greater challenges in the future. Read more from experts Peter Garrett & Allan Poulsen on how we will achieve our 2040 target:
In partnership with Mercury, our blades journey to Turitea Wind Farm in New Zealand. Once all 60 of our turbines are installed, this project is set to be the country's largest wind farm providing up to 222 megawatts of clean energy 💡🌍👌
🇩🇪: We’re happy to see growing political momentum in
#Germany
's
#energytransition
. Onshore wind energy is booming, with installations up 50% in 2023's first 3 quarters. Thanks to Minister Robert Habeck and the government for their support.
@BMWK
The first turbines were safely installed at the 857 MW Triton Knoll project off the coast of Lincolnshire, UK, at the end of January. Great job to everyone involved in this significant project for the growing UK offshore wind sector! 💪🎉
Learn more: