Pioneer in the North Sea [History]

This is the story of the first post World War II German wind power plant designed with modern aeronautical and control technology that, for a period of 20 years, operated in the estuary of the Elbe River. Except for Denmark and the Soviet Union, windpowered electric generation on a major scale was not introduced in Western Europe until the 1970s. Therefore, the Insel Neuwerk plant can be considered to be a forerunner of the large-scale use of wind as an electrical power source.