Energy · 1991

Offshore wind farm

Eleven turbines off Denmark tap the steadier sea winds.

Vindeby, 5 MW from eleven 450 kW turbines, opened in 1991. Offshore winds are stronger and more constant, and the industry grew to projects of over 1 GW each within 30 years.

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

Gedser wind turbine 1956

What it led to 2

Floating offshore wind 2017
Gigawatt-scale offshore wind 2019

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