Tunø Knob Offshore Wind Farm is an
offshore wind farm
A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity. Wind farms vary in size from a small number of turbines to several hundred wind tur ...
in the
Bay of Aarhus
The Bay of Aarhus, or Aarhus Bay, is a Danish waterway by Aarhus in eastern Jutland.
The Bay of Aarhus is bounded by Kalø Vig in the north, Sletterhage and Helgenæs in the east, Samsø and Tunø to the south and the east Jutland coast to the ...
, Denmark. It is located on the sandbar Tunø Knob, west of the
Tunø
Tunø is a Danish island in the Kattegat, approximately 4 km west of the neighbouring island of Samsø. The island covers an area of , has a circumference of and has total of 66 inhabitants as of November 2022. It comes under the administrat ...
island.
The wind farm was commissioned in 1995 with 10 turbines, each a 500 kW
Vestas
Vestas Wind Systems A/S is a Danish manufacturer, seller, installer, and servicer of wind turbines that was founded in 1945. The company operates manufacturing plants in Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, India, Italy, Romania, the U ...
V39.
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Data on operating and decommissioned wind turbines (as at end of September 2010)
(.xls spreadsheet) ''Danish Energy Agency The Danish Energy Agency (Danish: Energistyrelsen) was established in 1976 as an agency of the Danish Ministry of Transport. It was part of the Ministry of Environment and Energy from 1994 to 2001. In 2007 it came under the newly created Danish Mini ...
'', 18 October 2010
Main page
Retrieved: 25 October 2010.[Operational offshore wind farms in Europe, end 2009](_blank)
''EWEA
WindEurope is an association promoting the use of wind power in Europe. Based in Brussels it has over 600 members, which are active in over 50 countries, including manufacturers with a leading share of the world wind power market, component suppli ...
''. Retrieved: 23 October 2010.[Christensen, Allan S. & Madsen, Morten]
Supply Chain study on the Danish offshore wind industry
page 33-42 ''Offshore Center Denmark'', 29. august 2005. Retrieved: 23 October 2010. The turbines are 45 metres high, based on concrete foundations at 3-6 meter deep waters, and together they produce enough electricity to supply c. 2,800 households.
The Tunø Knob Offshore Wind Farm was the first offshore wind farm by Danish wind turbine company Vestas.
See also
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Wind power in Denmark
Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today a substantial share of the wind turbines around the world are produced by Danish manufacturers such as Vestas—the world's largest wind-turbine manufacturer ...
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List of offshore wind farms in Denmark
This is a list of operational, offshore wind farms in Denmark (within the national maritime boundaries). Denmark's wind power generation is the highest in the world as a fraction of domestic consumption, reaching 47% in 2019.
Data is primaril ...
References
External links
Wind farms in Denmark
Ørsted (company) wind farms
Energy infrastructure completed in 1995
1995 establishments in Denmark
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