Dong intends to deploy the Siemens 6MW turbine – a direct-drive machine with a 154-metre rotor – at wind farms in the UK in the 2014-2017 period.

”The agreement will enable Dong Energy to install a significantly larger turbine from 2014," says Carsten Krogsgaard Thomsen, acting chief executive of Dong.

He adds: ”The agreement on the supply of the new turbines totalling 1,800MW is an important step...and