Supply Chain Study on the Danish Offshore Wind Industry

Figure1. The localization on a number of the Danish Wind Turbine Industry(From Danish Wind Industry Association)2.2 Firm Survey, Employees and RevenuesThe effect of the Wind Turbine on the Danish Society is considerable. The Danish Wind TurbineIndustry has been steadily growing since its start in the late 70's and today, the Danish WindTurbine industries still represents the world leadership in the dynamic marked, with Vestas asthe largest and most successful of the manufacturing, sales, marketing and maintenance firms.But in fact, a larges number of firms in Denmark are directly connected to the Wind TurbineIndustry, and they all makes serious contributions to the Danish and world wide societies andeconomies.When looking through the databases of firms registrations for 2004, there is found 164 Danishcompanies registered on the European NACA code 311040: Manufacturing of Wind Turbinesand parts for that. The firms registered here consider them self as mainly Wind Turbinemanufacturing and service firms (direct employment), but some of them have other business too(indirect employment).These 164 Danish firms in 2004 represents a number of direct employees of total 12.810persons, and the firms have an total revenue on 2.093.669 Euro.See Appendix 2: The Wind Turbine Industry in Denmark. Firm Survey 2004.See Appendix 3: The Wind Turbine Industry in Denmark. Employees and Revenues 2004.POWER / <strong>Supply</strong> <strong>Chain</strong> <strong>Study</strong> Denmark Page 2OFFSHORE CENTER DANMARKNiels Bohrs Vej 6DK-6700 Esbjerg, Denmark