Vestas presented its project – Mission 2025, which was started to try to assess what the future business environment will look like for the company. The project has gathered top scientists and researchers who are drawing up scenarios of the future, guided by leading futurologists, scientists and thinkers from around the world.

Fifteen years from now, the company anticipates different operational conditions – wealthy economies, market expansions, centralized and integrated energy supply, energy storage and new power grids. These are some of the changes that will effect the way a renewable energy company will do business in the near future. Some of the directions are microscopic devices harnessing airflow energy, or wind turbines combined with other technologies on floating formations – "energy islands".

According to Vestas' vice president of Global Technology Innovation, René Balle, the company's R&D strategy is being revised in order to address new requirements imposed by the developing market.

Mission 2025 was presented at an event attended by the company's employees. Four scenarios were presented, showing possibilities like centralized power plants, local smaller power plants, but also wind energy with or without other technologies combined.

[source: Vestas]