Vestas Enters Race to Build World’s Most Powerful Turbine

(Bloomberg) -- Vestas Wind Systems A/S will start selling one of the world’s most powerful turbine to use for farms at sea.

The giant machine, that’ll come into use by 2024, will compete with the skyscraper-sized turbines already on sale by its competitors. The industry is racing to produce increasingly larger machines that generate wind power more efficiently and at a lower cost.

Vestas’s new turbine will be 15 megawatts. That matches the potential capacity of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy SA, while General Electric Co’s Haliade-X machine has a capacity of 14 megawatts. Both stand hundreds of feet tall.

Vestas expects to install a prototype of the new machine next year. Mass production will happen by 2024, the company said in a statement. The precise dimensions of the turbine were not released but Vestas said one windmill could generate enough power for 20,000 households a year.

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