Rated at 6.15MW, the machine – which has 126-metre-diameter rotor with a swept area of almost 12,500 sq metres – currently holds the title of the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine.

Thirty 6Ms will this year be erected on pre-installed quattropod jackets by the Deme-owned GeoSea Neptune crane jack-up vessel, with a further 16 in the frame for installation by mid-2013.