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Danish inventor and businessman

Henrik Stiesdal (born April 14, ) is a Danish inventor and businessman in the modern wind power industry.

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In , he designed one of the first wind turbines representing the so-called "Danish Concept" which dominated the global wind industry through the s.^[1] Until , Stiesdal was the chief technology officer of Siemens Wind Power. During his professional career, Stiesdal has made more than inventions and has received more than patents related to wind power technology.

Early life

Henrik Stiesdal was born in Hørsholm, a town located in the East of Denmark. Between – he studied medicine, physics and biology at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. In , Stiesdal became motivated by the steam plume from a powerplant cooling tower in England to build two small test turbines out of wood, steel and fabric.^[2][3][4] He subsequently built a full-scale grid-connected wind turbine which was i Stiesdal is a climate technology company | Stiesdal, carousel VACYK