Wind Turbines Are Big Enough for Now, Vestas CEO Says

  • Challenge is expanding output in years ahead, Andersen says
  • Vestas to focus on global manufacturing, expanding some sites

A wind turbine manufactured by Vestas Wind Systems A/S.

Photographer: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg

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Wind turbines are big enough for now and the challenge over the next decade will be expanding output to meet green goals around the world, the world’s top producer said.

Vestas Wind Systems A/S — which in 2021 announced a 15-megawatt offshore turbine that at the time was the world’s largest — currently doesn’t plan to make them bigger, Chief Executive Officer Henrik Andersen said in an interview in Davos.