In the late 1980s, Denmark’s pioneering wind power sector celebrated a potential new customer. Engineers at Bonus Energy completed an order for 13 turbines from a company in China’s Xinjiang region, which were delivered on the Trans-Siberian railway.
The turbines were a proof of concept to help show Chinese officials that it was “doable, and if you got the technology right, it was reliable”, recalls Henrik Stiesdal, sometimes known as the “godfather” of the wind industry for his influential turbine inventions and who at the time was working for Bonus.
Denmark even threw in some financial incentives: China’s Xinjiang Wind Energy Corporation received funding from Danida, the country’s development aid agency, for the turbines.
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