Denmark lies the largest wind farm in the world .

The wind farms and Off Off Rev 1 Rev 2 stand respectively at 14 and 29 km to the west coast of Denmark in the North Sea. They form the largest offshore wind farm in the world.
Keywords: wind power, Blaavand, fishing, DENMARK, Compagnie du Vent.

The turbines are part of the Danish landscape for a quarter of a century. They now provide 22% power to this country.

From the beach of fine sand Blaavand, the eighty turbines remain invisible. A ray of sunlight pierced the haze of spring and as white needles planted on the horizon, they suddenly appear, fugitive. Wind Farm Off Rev 1 stands 14 kilometers from the west coast of Denmark, North Sea. Fourteen miles is exactly the distance planned for the first French plan to offshore wind, offshore Tréport in the Channel, which is currently the subject of public debate in Normandy and Picardy.
Horns Rev 1 is the first major offshore facility built in Denmark. His eighty wind turbines churning past ten years. Fifteen miles further turn off the 91 windmills at Horns Rev 2. The two parks together form the largest offshore wind farm in the world. It develops an installed capacity of 369 megawatts, enough to provide power to 350,000 Danes, or nearly 4% of the national population. While browsing at the foot of this army of giants of the seas, spaced over 500 meters, one loses all sense of scale. Difficult to realize that the white blades reaching over 110 meters above the waves.
The turbines are part of the Danish landscape for a quarter of a century. They now provide 22% power to this country. At the polls, the Danes now prefer to see them installed in industrial sea also. For if the cost of an offshore park may double that of an onshore facility because of the foundations to twenty meters deep, and power cables, pull the wind energy potential is much higher at sea

Sailors converted:
The residents of Blaavand were nonetheless concerned ten years ago, says Colin Seymour, an English emigrant, head of local tourism. In this Finistère Danish hosts 3.5 million visitors a year, the wind project has not led to falling property prices. Some cruise ship at the foot of wind turbines are even organized.
The fishermen were the main resistance to the "devil's Reef" (translation of Horns Rev). "We were afraid that the fish disappear," acknowledges Jesper Juul Larsen, owner of a shrimp fisherman and representative of the port of Esbjerg. "We did not see any change." Jesper has participated in early May at a public meeting to Dieppe to support his French colleagues. Norman fishermen have suspected of being in the pay of the Company's wind. In Esbjerg, fishermen received a compensation package of seven million crowns (about 1 million euros) paid to their professional organization.
Struck by the general crisis of the fisheries, marine were converted in offshore services. For the port of Esbjerg has developed a local industry of offshore wind, which has infrastructure and expertise developed for the offshore oil drilling Offshore wind employs nearly 3,000 professionals in the region of Esbjerg.
In the port of Esbjerg, at the foot of the historic coal plant, lined with giant white tube. The German Siemens and the Danish Vestas store blades, nacelles and pylons by dozens. Destination: the other side of the North Sea where Britain has become the first global market for offshore wind.