 He was granted financial support by the Danish Government, and the first experimental mill at Askov was erected in the summer of 1891.La Cour's first task however was to "tame" the wind power, in order to make the mill produce a constant power in order to drive a generator.This was solved by the so-called Kratostate, a differential regulator, which later was simplified ("vippeforlaget") and widely used in electricity producing windmills in the Nordic countries and Germany.