Vestas seizes throne on collapsed major market

Three years into its tender scheme, Germany has finally installed its first gigawatt. Most of the capacity was installed by Vestas, which by a hair's breadth also seems to have become market leader for the first time, when measured by the entire tendered capacity.
Photo: Frank Boutrup Schmidt/Vestas
Photo: Frank Boutrup Schmidt/Vestas

After German authorities reported increasingly lower participation in its onshore wind tenders for six consecutive years, demand during the only one of its kind, which took place shortly before Christmas, was higher than the tendered capacity. A few days before the call, the Germans celebrated that the first of the seven gigawatts so far allocated in the three-year-old tender scheme has now been installed.

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