Press Release:

Vestas challenges scaling rules with multi-rotor concept demonstration turbine

“Installing a concept turbine shows that innovation sometimes entails entirely new thinking and new approaches. This process of continuous innovation and exploration is extremely important. It provides us with essential knowledge that can help us bring down our products’ cost of energy and integrate key technologies to solve our customers’ challenges. Ultimately, the goal is to assess if we can build an even more cost-efficient turbine by challenging the scaling rules”, says Jorge Magalhaes, Senior Vice President, Vestas Innovation & Concepts.

Anders Vedel, Executive Vice President, Vestas Technology & Service Solutions adds that: “As a global company, it is essential that Vestas’ product portfolio remains versatile enough to deliver high performance in a wide array of different market conditions – and also innovative enough to succeed in markets with different energy systems and requirements.  And we see a great opportunity – and need – to continuously explore alternative concepts to cover the world’s rapidly growing energy demand in a sustainable way, while simultaneously continue lowering the cost of energy our products deliver”.

With the Technical University of Denmark as a research partner, the multi-rotor concept demonstrator is being erected at the Risø test site near Roskilde, Denmark, where it will be studied closely in the coming years in order to test specific functionalities.  

For photos and additional information about the project, please visit: www.vestas.com/multirotor.  

Contact:
Michael Zarin
Head of External Communications & Media Relations
Tel: +45 4084 1526
Mail: mizar@vestas.com

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