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01 Jun 2023 | Madrid (renewablepress) - Qualitas Energy, a global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, announced today the opening of a new office in Chile as part of its international expansion. The new office is located in Santiago, enabling Qualitas Energy to position itself in one of the most dynamic and relevant renewable energy markets in Latin America. Chile is a strategic country for Qualitas Energy due to its favorable and stable regulatory environment, strong renewable development, and ambitious decarbonization goals that position it as one of the fast...... read more...

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31 May 2023 | Kallinchen (renewablepress) - Energiequelle GmbH hosted a jubilant celebration to mark its 25th anniversary. Almost 900 guests, 400 of them employees, made their way to Feldheim (Brandenburg) on 12 May where they celebrated until late into the night under the theme "we shine brighter together". With their invitation, guests received a light bulb which was brought along as a "part of the whole" and turned into a light installation forming the Energiequelle logo. This was later illuminated. The anniversary, which officially took place on 22 October 2022, was celebrated in Feldheim because the first of the more than 850 wind turbines t...... read more...

Visualization of the planned wind farm © Mercedes Benz

24 May 2023 | Meißen/Papenburg (renewablepress) - Mercedes-Benz plans for installing a wind farm at its test track in Papenburg, northern Germany, are taking shape: German energy park developer UKA (Umweltgerechte Kraftanlagen GmbH & Co. KG) has been awarded a long-term contract worth hundreds of millions to erect approximately 20 wind turbines by middle of the decade. The planned wind farm with a capacity of more than 120 MW will be operational on the site as part of a power purchase agreement (PPA) sufficient to cover around 20 percent of the annual electricity requirements of Mercedes-Benz Group AG in Germany. The installation of photovoltaic syst...... read more...

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12 May 2023 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) generated sales of EUR 1,217 million (Q1/2022: EUR 933 million). This sales growth in the first three months of the year is attributable to higher installation output than at the start of the previous year. Both the average installed capacity (in MW) per turbine and the number of installed wind turbines increased. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in the first quarter amounted to minus EUR 114.9 million (Q1/2022: minus EUR 88.9 million), resulting in an EBITDA margin of minus 9.4 percent (Q1/2022: minus 9.5 percent). Operating...... read more...

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09 May 2023 | Hannover (renewablepress) - GEO-NET Umweltconsulting GmbH from Hanover (GEO-NET) can now perform wind energy yield assessments considering various climate scenarios. Not least due to climate change, an increased expansion of renewable energies must be driven forward. GEO-NET makes an important contribution to the financing of wind energy projects by providing bankable reports and measurement campaigns. In the last year, the question of how climate change will affect the energy yield of wind farms during their operating period was increasingly raised at various conferences and industry meetings. Additionally, the November 2022 BWE stan...... read more...

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08 May 2023 | Munich/Pforzheim (renewablepress) - The energy transition does not just change the energy generation technologies we use, but also requires the power grids to be updated. Today, instead of a dozen large-scale power plants, an enormous swarm of power plants all feed into our grid: Several thousand wind farms and over 2.6 million PV systems have been installed in Germany alone – and there is a steep upward trend. This makes our power generation weather dependent: On windless or cloudy days, the energy supply may not match the demand, leading to bottlenecks – or worse – blackouts. To keep the grid frequency at a stable 50.2 hertz, grid operators...... read more...

Together for a green future: Prominent representatives from business and politics at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Elster repowering wind farm © VSB Group

04 May 2023 | Dresden/Zahna-Elster/Jessen (renewablepress) - The official groundbreaking ceremony for the Elster Repowering wind farm took place today in the presence of Professor Armin Willingmann, Minister for Science, Energy, Climate Protection and the Environment of Saxony-Anhalt. Project developer VSB has thus realised one of the largest repowering projects in Europe: 50 outdated wind turbines will be replaced by 16 modern, more efficient ones. The new wind farm, which is scheduled to go online in the second half of 2024, will have a capacity of 105.6 MW and generate around 235 GWh per year. That is enough to supply 67,000 three-person households w...... read more...

The Konttisuo wind farm in Finland went online in 2022 and contributed to the company’s success © Energiequelle GmbH

04 May 2023 | Kallinchen (renewablepress) - In 2022, Energiequelle GmbH broke a company record with sales of 213 million euros, exceeding its profit forecasts. This is an increase in sales of almost 34 percent year on year for the internationally active company, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. This is the result of the construction of 24 wind turbines, a solar farm and a substation in Germany, France and Finland. The total output of the wind farm is almost 91 MW and 25 MVA of substation output. In terms of operations management, the company has won tenders for 22 wind turbines, twelve PV plants and a substation. The wind, solar a...... read more...

Qualitas Energy participates wind farm communities in economic success © iStock

02 May 2023 | Berlin (renewablepress) - Qualitas Energy, a global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, is giving municipalities a share in its economic success by paying a voluntary municipal levy of €2 / MWh for wind farms. This decision follows the amendment of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), which allows wind farm operators in Germany to pay municipalities directly for the first time. Qualitas Energy currently operates more than 350 MW of total wind energy capacity in Germany and will thus pay more than €1 million in voluntary municipal contribution...... read more...

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27 Apr 2023 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has again received an order from Lithuania. The Nordex Group will supply eleven N163/5.X turbines for the 62.7 MW "Jurbarkas II" wind farm for the Lithuanian project developer, Green Genius. The order also includes a premium Service contract for the maintenance of the turbines for a period of 25 years. The wind farm will be built near the town of Jurbarkas in an agricultural region in the southwest of the country, around 50 kilometers from the Baltic Sea. It is characterized by average wind speeds of more than 7 m/s, which makes the Delta4000 series turbines, which will sit on 159-meter towers, t...... read more...