Energy · 1956

Gedser wind turbine

Juul's three-bladed, upwind, stall-regulated design becomes the Danish concept.

Johannes Juul's 200 kW Gedser turbine ran from 1957 to 1967 with three blades facing into the wind. After the 1970s oil shocks, Danish firms such as Vestas scaled this layout into the modern wind industry.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 1

Smith-Putnam turbine 1941

What it led to 1

Offshore wind farm 1991

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Installed wind capacity Latest: 1.29k GW (2025) Source: Our World in Data

Wind electricity generation Latest: 2.71k TWh (2025) Source: Our World in Data