The 100-turbine Thanet will remain the world’s largest offshore wind project until the London Array is finished around 2013. It required an unprecedented level of operational effort and financial commitment from Vattenfall.

Rather than working through one engineering, procurement and construction contractor, Vattenfall elected to manage the project in house, including co-ordinating with the more than 70 firms that had a hand in bringing Thanet to completion.

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