The blades – which are the longest yet devised by the industry, outstripping Vestas’ 80-metre units for the V164 – made the journey on heavy load trucks from SSP’s Kirkeby factory to the port of Esbjerg before for shipment onward by sea to the Fife Energy Park demo site in Methil.

Each slimline carbon and glass-fibre hybrid blade, built around a patented spar-design, has a root diameter of 4.2-metres