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, thus joining a handful of other wind turbines that have generated this much electricity.
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.
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.”
He added: “Even if there was a lot of let’s call it ‘cowboy engineering’ in terms of our way of doing things back then, Horns Rev 1 became the beginning of an offshore industry which has just kept growing ever since. Many large and small companies, which today are part of the supply chain for wind turbines, foundations, cables and other equipment for large projects worth billions, stepped into the sea for the first time at Horns Rev 1.”
The offshore wind farm Horns Rev 1 with a total capacity of 160MW has been spinning for approximately 13 years now, and wind turbine number 6, which has generated 100GWh, has generated enough power by itself to supply all the households in the Danish city Vejle in Jutland or Canterbury in the UK with power for an entire year.
Horns Rev 1 is 60 percent owned by the Vattenfall Group and 40 percent owned by DONG Energy.