The Vestas V164 is a three-bladed offshore wind turbine, produced by Vestas, with a nameplate capacity of up to 10 megawatts, a world record.[1] Vestas revealed the V164's design in 2011 with the first prototype unit operated at Østerild in northern Denmark in January 2014.[2] The first industrial units were installed in 2016 at Burbo Bank, off the west coast of the United Kingdom.[3][4] By 2021, Vestas had produced 500 of the series.[5]
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