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Figure 10.1
Danregn (Bonus) 22 kW prototype with 5 m Økær blades,
1980 (left); unique colour code on the tower for marking
6 m tower modules depending on the capacity of the
turbine. Modular tower was a flexibile solution (right).
Now we embarked on the sales job, which was done in the
evenings and on weekends. Luckily we sold a few, and when we
installed our first wind turbine, we could not wait to know whether
everything would be as we hoped. We were lucky. The wind
turbine worked without any major problems. The first windmills
were 22 kW, but we soon went on to 30 kW.
In 1981, Danregn Vindkraft A/S was established as an
independent enterprise. We were permanently behindhand and
felt a strong pressure from our colleagues from other companies.
When we were developing a 30 kW wind turbine, they were already
at the 55 kW wind turbine. So the only thing was to develop a
similar 55 kW wind turbine, and we succeeded comparatively
rapidly. Looking back, it may not have been such a bad thing to be
behindhand, because we escaped some of the mishaps that others
ran into, I am thinking in particular of blade problems that Vestas
had.
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