Company Profiles

Vestas Wind Systems

Denmark

Based in Denmark, Vestas develops, manufactures, and markets wind energy products. This company has a clear sustainability strategy based on manufacturing equipment and operating facilities for the renewable energy sector. By capturing the energy available in wind currents, power can be generated with essentially zero emissions to the environment. Vestas has performed life-cycle analysis on a number of its products, and reports that its 3.0 MW turbines generate enough renewable energy to offset the energy consumed in their production in less than seven months of operation. Vestas sees environmental considerations playing an important role in political and commercial decisions. The increasing attention and regulations associated with greenhouse gas emissions, and the resulting growth in the wind industry as a whole, places Vestas in a position to profit. Vestas has also invested in reducing the direct impacts of its own operations; for example, 100% of the company's employees work in ISO 14001 certified facilities, and well over half of Vestas's electricity needs are met by renewable power sources, including wind turbines located at manufacturing sites. Portfolio 21 has asked Vestas to increase the recycling rate for waste at its manufacturing facilities.

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