Is biggest best when it comes to wind turbines?

11/21/22 • 22 min

Anders Nielsen, chief technology officer for the turbine manufacturer Vestas, discusses why the race for the biggest turbine has to stop.

In the seventh episode of the Wind Power podcast, Ian Griggs, deputy editor of Windpower Monthly, had a wide-ranging discussion with Nielsen about the current health of the turbine industry.

Subjects on the agenda included how keep the whole wind industry supply chain solvent – and the role of turbine manufacturers within that – as well as whether a level playing field currently exists between Europe and China for OEMs.

The conversation also covered the uneven distribution of profit across the industry, whether turbine customers need to shoulder more of the risk and how big turbines can and should get if the industry wants to build them at scale and meet global demand.

Nielsen also gave his view on COP27 and what form reparations to countries drastically affected by climate change should take.

This episode was produced by Czarina Deen

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Anders Nielsen, chief technology officer for the turbine manufacturer Vestas, discusses why the race for the biggest turbine has to stop.

In the seventh episode of the Wind Power podcast, Ian Griggs, deputy editor of Windpower Monthly, had a wide-ranging discussion with Nielsen about the current health of the turbine industry.

Nielsen also gave his view on COP27 and what form reparations to countries drastically affected by climate change should take.

This episode was produced by Czarina Deen

Opinion: Wind industry must slow down turbine development to speed up the offshore rollout

Vestas launches new 15MW offshore wind turbine with 236-metre rotor

Siemens Gamesa chief calls for EU turbine quota to protect industry from ‘unfair’ Chinese competition

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In the sixth episode of the Wind Power podcast, Claire Warren, editor of Windpower Monthly, is joined by Jonathan Cole, CEO of Corio Generation, Vicky O'Connor, technical manager for development in Europe at Northland Power, and Pablo Necochea, lead advisor for the floating segment at Vestas.

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Currently, there is little in the way of operational capacity and, although we have tried and tested floater concepts, we are a long way from having enough port space and heavy engineering capacity to facilitate the mass production needed for the industry to truly take off.

But the benefits are clear and in the longer term floating wind will likely be central to global decarbonisation efforts and the drive to hit net zero by 2050.

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This episode was produced by Czarina Deen and recorded at WindEnergy Hamburg where Windpower Monthly was the official podcast partner.

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This episode was produced by Czarina Deen

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