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Vestas Succeeds in US Despite Challenges
Vestas continues to make headwinds in the US, despite the current administration’s disdain for wind energy.
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Vestas is making headway in America. Despite a president who has a dim view of their product. Despite the administration halting offshore wind projects across the country. Despite tariffs climbing over one hundred percent.
Vestas delivered more than sixty percent MORE to America in the third quarter of this year. Vestas delivered ONSHORE wind turbines. One point four gigawatts [GIG-uh-wahts]. Enough to power more than four hundred thousand homes.
Every third turbine they delivered worldwide went to the US – that Danish wind turbine manufacturer – has a chief executive named HENRIK ANDERSEN. VESTAS Chief Executive HENRIK ANDERSEN.Andersen said something remarkable recently:
“We are pleased with what we see.” Now you might wonder how. How does a wind company GROW when the White House opposes wind turbines? How do orders INCREASE when the administration halts offshore wind development?
How does business boom when tariffs make everything more expensive? Here’s what VESTAS figured out two decades ago.
They built blade factories in Colorado. Nacelle factories too. More than twelve hundred American companies are in their supply chain. Creating jobs. Creating trust. Creating roots too deep to pull up. And here’s the thing about electricity in America today:
The demand is so HIGH – from factories, from those hungry data centers powering artificial intelligence – that customers will buy power REGARDLESS of tariffs. As Andersen puts it: “Electricity is in such high demand that orders will actually be fulfilled.”
Some customers ARE waiting for clarity on those tariffs. VESTAS admits it would have gotten even MORE orders without them.
And yes, offshore wind orders? Zero. Not a single megawatt in the third quarter. The administration saw to that.
Despite everything – the politics, the tariffs, the offshore freeze – wind remains the most cost-effective electricity source available. ONSHORE wind. Seven to nine percent annual growth expected through twenty thirty. And VESTAS? They’re so confident they just announced a one hundred fifty million EURO share buyback program.
That’s money they’re returning to shareholders. You don’t do that unless you believe in what’s coming next. Twenty-five hundred megawatts ordered for the Americas in just one quarter. The US and Germany – driving their order book right now.
Now Andersen won’t predict WHEN all those waiting customers will place their orders. “It’s simply too difficult to predict,” he says. But he adds this: “We take the orders we can get” And there’s something else worth knowing. Those rising electricity prices everyone’s feeling? In parts of America, wholesale power costs jumped as much as two hundred sixty-seven percent in just five years.
Baltimore. Los Angeles. Minneapolis. Cities far from data centers paying more because the grid serves everyone. VESTAS is betting that when power bills climb, wind becomes MORE attractive. Not less. The cheapest electron wins.
And right now, even WITH tariffs, wind is delivering the most affordable power in America. So while Washington halts offshore projects and debates tariffs, this Danish company just keeps building ONSHORE. Keeps hiring. Keeps delivering. One point four gigawatts at a time. The administration froze offshore wind. But VESTAS found another way.
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Empire Offshore Progress, New RWE Offshore Farm Approved
Allen covers forecasts for 46 GW of new US wind capacity by 2029, driven by data centers and reshoring. Plus Equinor’s Empire Wind project stays on track for late 2026, RWE gets approval for the Five Estuaries offshore wind farm in the UK, and a Scottish startup raises funding for modular multi-rotor turbines.
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There is an old saying about the wind. You cannot see it. You cannot hold it. But you can harness it. And right now, people around the world are doing exactly that.
After years of sluggish growth, American wind power is waking up. Wood Mackenzie reports the United States will add more than seven gigawatts of new wind capacity in 2025. That is a thirty-six percent jump from this year. And by 2029? Forty-six gigawatts of new capacity coming online.
Why now? Because after a decade of flat electricity demand, America is hungry for power again. Data centers. Electric vehicles. Factories returning home. Demand is growing three percent annually now, up from less than one percent before.
Out West, they are leading the charge. Wyoming. New Mexico. Colorado. Pattern Energy’s three-point-five gigawatt SunZia project in New Mexico alone will make them the top wind installer in 2026. And Invenergy’s Towner Energy Center in Colorado? Nine hundred ninety-eight megawatts. The single largest project expected to come online in 2027.
But here is where it gets interesting. Off the coast of Long Island, a different kind of story is unfolding. The Empire Wind project. Eight hundred ten megawatts of offshore wind power. Enough to power half a million homes in Brooklyn. Norwegian energy giant Equinor is building it. And despite the political headwinds blowing against offshore wind, New York is standing firm. First electricity expected by late 2026.
Across the Atlantic, Britain just gave the green light to something bigger. The Five Estuaries offshore wind farm. Seventy-nine turbines off the coast of Suffolk and Essex. At least twenty-three miles from shore. German energy company RWE is building it. When complete, it will power one million British homes. One million.
Meanwhile, Europe is putting its money where the wind blows. Austria’s Erste Group just signed a two hundred million euro deal with the European Investment Bank. Part of an eight billion euro program to strengthen European wind turbine manufacturers. As Karl Nehammer, the bank’s vice president, put it: Europe is serious about keeping wind manufacturing jobs at home.
Now… You might think wind power is all about going big. Massive offshore farms. Turbines taller than skyscrapers. But in Stirling, Scotland, three entrepreneurs have a different idea. Adam Harris. Paul Pirrie. Peter Taylor. They founded a company called Myriad Wind Energy Systems.
Their invention? Small modular wind turbines. Multiple rotors mounted in a framework. No cranes needed. No special roads. Install them on a farm. On a factory. On a remote site where traditional turbines could never go. This week, they secured eight hundred sixty-five thousand pounds in seed funding. Led by Tricapital Angels. Their first prototype? A fifty-kilowatt unit scheduled for 2026.
From Wyoming to New York. From Essex to Austria. From the North Sea to the Scottish Highlands. Wind energy is not waiting for permission. It is happening. Forty-six gigawatts in America alone by decade’s end. Billions of euros flowing in Europe. Innovators in Scotland proving that sometimes, smaller is smarter.
You cannot see the wind. But you can see what it is building.
That’s the wind industry news for the 22nd of December 2025. Happy Holidays folks, wherever you may be.
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Do I have good wind conditions 10 – 20 feet off the ground, surrounded by other houses and trees?
Mustn’t there be a reason that real wind farms are cited away from buildings, and the turbines are hundreds of feet in the air?
Why did the small wind industry vanish about 15 years ago?
Manufacturer of “Micro-Wind” Turbines Says, “Start Generating Wind Power on Your Roof Today!”
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