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and the most interesting thing, which I ever did in my entire life.
And the cooperation between Vind-Syssel and the Folkecenter has
contributed remarkably in developing the modern WTG industry.
Back to Restaurant Hedelund in Brønderslev, summer 985.
Trying to be loyal to the basic philosophy, as mentioned earlier, we
decided to form the company like the old locally owned entities,
where your influence is based on “heads of persons” and not “heads
of cattle”. About 30 people came to the meeting, among them my
friends, Tage, the lawyer and Kaj, the auditor, who both ofered
support with no charge until Vind-Syssel would be on the track—and
of course Preben. I also especially remember Bent, an old man with
a white beard (like mine is now), who was quite irritating, asking a
lot of questions, but who later on appeared to be of a great support
to Vind-Syssel.
11.4
The Beginning
Vind-Syssel was a reality, but we had no organisation, except from
the board, me and the Folkecenter engineering staf. The money
was absolutely limited, so my task now was to work with the
Folkecenter engineers on final documentation, negotiate with
suppliers for parts, assembly, installation, etc., and to plan the sales
strategy and do the sales material. I hired my daughter, Pernille, as
my first secretary, and she and I did all of this while I also accepted
a part-time job teaching ecology at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in
Kungälv, Sweden, because so far, Vind-Syssel could not aford to
give me any real salary.
After about six months we were ready to take of by erecting
our prototype, the first commercial 150 kW WTG. It was ready
for serial production, and the first ever with hydraulic tip brakes,
implemented in the first set of the new LM 11 m blades.
Now we were ready to manufacture and sell. But we had no
assembly facilities, so we agreed with Stig, the owner of a small
machinery factory in Frederikshavn, to do the assembly and
we secured all diferent parts from suppliers in Denmark and
abroad. Erection was outsourced to crane entrepreneurs Gert
and Donald from GSS PowerMills in Frederikshavn, who was also
manufacturing their own wind turbines called the Wind Rose.
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