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In 1982, Davidsen had been far-sighted enough to order some
smaller gears when the Kumera gear for the 90 kW was ordered in
Finland. Soon afterwards he reaped the fruits of this decision, as he
was able to export about 75 machines of his own design to California
under the name of Lolland.
For Kim Andersen and Knud Buhl Nielsen, the cooperation
with the blacksmiths became the jumping board to big industry.
They designed Nordex's very first wind turbines (150 and 200 kW).
This Danish company used to make oil tanks and boilers, but had
never done anything within wind power and nevertheless got on
the top 10 list of wind power at the end of the century.
According to its purpose, the State Steering Committee for
Renewable Energy (Styregruppen for Vedvarende Energi), with
Professor Niels I. Meyer as its dedicated and visionary president,
master blacksmiths were an obvious target group. The next
interesting project was the local production of 10 × 90 kW wind
turbines for a local wind farm. The island of Mors was the first
chosen location, and a group of SMEs to produce the 10 wind
turbines was formed. For a start this was a fine order. As the entire
windmill industry was booming particularly on the American
market, the prospects of export were promising, too.
But no windmills were built in Mors. The local enterprises
were too greedy, they thought that they could get easy state
money and made unrealistically high calculations. Consequently, a
group of seven SMEs in the island of Bornholm, formed the Baltic
Power, and got the opportunity to carry out the visions of local
production. The first windmill made in Bornholm was a 99 kW
prototype with wooden blades of the type developed by NIVE in
1982.
As these blades could have been produced locally, the
Bornholm people had a strong wish that the other nine wind
turbines should also have wooden blades. But in the meantime
enhanced fibreglass blades had become available, and that meant
the end of wooden blades.
The commercial risk and coordination of the project was in the
care of Dansk Andelsenergi which employed engineer Per Nielsen
as the local anchor man. He did an excellent job. He had to get the
local companies together and start a local production by means of
the Folkecenter drawings.
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