EUROWIND ENERGY - Key Persons
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- Country Manager United Kingdom
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- Head of Communication & Marketing
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- Senior Development Manager
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- CEO
- Member of the Executive Board
- Member of the Senior Management Team
Jens Rasmussen trained as an electrician, and created his own consultancy in 1999. One of his first assignments was to build a platform for a NEG Micon 750, when his company was the first to integrate the transformer into the wind turbine. "I bought my first wind turbine in Aalbæk, near Skagen, back in 1999 for my hard-earned salary as an electrician's apprentice. It was a huge investment for me back then, because the reimbursement for the wind turbine was five years, and what if the turbine only lasted for three years. I still own it and it is still running, so I am quite satisfied with that investment," Jens says with a smile.
From 1996 - 2001, Jens, Søren and their father, Ove, invested in 12 Danish wind turbines, while they all were busy with their respective jobs. Jens was expanding his consultancy business with more than 20 employees, and in Denmark, Søren was busy with his agricultural business. However, he could not let go of the fact that the wind turbines would fit well into the growing investment portfolio. "I actually went on a 24-hour trip to a wind farm, near Berlin in Germany, back in 2003, to take a look at three 2MW Vestas wind turbines. They were for sale for a great price, so I called my father and brother to suggest that we could buy one each. All I got was two ‘no thank-yous'. They probably thought I was crazy to want to do business with wind turbines abroad," Søren explains. Søren couldn't let go of the dream of purchasing those wind turbines in Germany, and 48 hours later, his bank gave him permission to buy all three himself. Jens, however, regretted his decision within a couple of weeks, and Søren let him purchase one of the three wind turbines - a wind turbine that Jens still owns today. The purchase of these three wind turbines was - more or less - the beginning of Eurowind Energy.
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- Land Acquisition Specialist
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- Registered in - House Counsel
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- COO
- Member of the Senior Management Team
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- Permitting & Development Specialist
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- Associate
- Project Developer
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- CFO
- Member of the Executive Board
- Member of the Senior Management Team
It all began back in 1977 in Hobro, Denmark. Electrician Ove Rasmussen, the father of Jens and Søren Rasmussen, installed a rebuilt Riisager wind turbine on the family farm. The wind turbine was connected to the grid, an idea that struck Ove when he visited Torgny Møller in Vrinners, Central Jutland, who used this type of turbine to supply his own home with power.
"At that time, there was a lot of talk about using renewables, but not much action. And nothing happens if all we do is keep talking," said Ove Rasmussen in an interview for the book Vindmøller i Skjellerup 1904 - 1977.
Somehow, it all started in Hobro in 1977, when the father of Jens and Søren Rasmussen, electrician Ove Rasmussen, set up a rebuilt Riisager wind turbine on the family farm. The wind turbine was connected to the grid - an idea that was born when Ove visited Torgny Møller in Vrinners, Central Jutland, who had experience of this type of wind turbine providing his household with decent power production.
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- CFO
- Executive Advisor
- Member of the Executive Board