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PART II
1975–1980: The Years of Breakthrough for Danish
Wind Power
With the asynchronous generator rediscovered, this chapter will
present various sides of the origin of the contemporary wind
turbine design and who made the crucial conceptual and tech-
nological contributions. It is important to acknowledge the work
to commercialise a wind turbine using Juul’s design principles.
It was not the hybrid blade technology of Juul and Riisager,
however, that lead the way to the development of the contemporary
wind tur
bine in Denmark, but the 2 MW Tvind ...