03 Jun 2020 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - Denmark based Obton A/S (“Obton”) secured a mezzanine-type HoldCo debt facility in an amount of 8 million Euros for PV assets owned by funds under management. The facility with a tenor of 15 years was granted by a UK based infrastructure debt fund. Obton has been advised by Germany based consulting firm Capcora who acted as sole financial advisor in this deal. Obton raised junior debt for one of its solar PV participations in France. The financing with a maturity date in 2035 was structured in a bond format. The underlying is a diversified portfolio of 18 PV projects with total capacity of 30.4 MWp spread across France – the assets are mainly car... read more...

03 Jun 2020 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received an order from its new customer, COPEL - Companhia Paranaense de Energia, for the supply and construction of 26 AW132/3465 turbines in Brazil. The order also includes the Servicing of the machines, with a contract term of 20 years. The 90 MW wind farm “Jandaíra Copel” will be built in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, near the city of Jandaíra in eastern Brazil. The Nordex Group will manufacture the 26 turbines at its production facility in Simões Filho. The turbines will be built on 120 metre concrete towers, which the Group will manufacture at its local plant in Areia Branca, not far from the site. The company will also sour... read more...

28 May 2020 | - Wind farm to be set up on recultivated land of a former open cast lignite mining site, Garzweiler Hamburg (renewablepress) - innogy SE has commissioned the Nordex Group to equip the “Jüchen A44n” wind farm with six N149/4.0-4.5 turbines, all with hub heights of 164 metres. The “Jüchen A44n” wind farm will be built next to the A44 motorway on around 90 hectares of recultivated land formerly used by the Garzweiler open cast lignite mining site, located to the south of the town of Jüchen in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. The wind farm will be run as part of a partnership between innogy SE and NEW Re GmbH, a subsidiary of the municipal service company NEW in the area of re... read more...

25 May 2020 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - The consulting firm Capcora, specialized on real assets, strenghten its team with another renewable energy professional. Since mid of May 2020 Andreas Bodensohn forms a part of the Energy & Infrastructure team. With the hiring, Capcora sets a further sign for its goal to become one of the leading European consulting firms in the field of real assets. Andreas Bodensohn is a proven M&A and financing specialist with almost ten years of experience in the renewable energy segment. Andreas started his career at the Munich-based financial service provider Copex Investment Partners, where he gained initial insights into evaluation and modeling of internatio... read more...

18 May 2020 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group will be the supplier for Vattenfall’s largest onshore wind farm in the UK. The 240 MW South Kyle wind farm in Scotland will consist of 50 N133/4.8 strong-wind turbines, and the Group will maintain the machines on the basis of a Premium Service Contract with a term of 10 years. The Nordex Group booked the contract for this project in the first quarter of 2020, and the company’s regular customer Vattenfall has now given the green light for the construction of the wind farm. The South Kyle Wind Farm will be built on land largely utilised for commercial forestry. Located 5km to the east of Dalmellington and between East Ayrshire and Dumfries an... read more...

13 May 2020 | - Pilot project in Prenzlau as a practical test for future gas infrastructure Dauerthal / Berlin (renewablepress) - Hydrogen is a crucial source of energy that in future will combine the electricity and gas infrastructures into one energy system. It can be generated using power-to-gas technologies and renewable electricity, added to the natural gas grid on a proportionate basis, transported and made available as needed for applications in mobility, industry and the heating market. For applications that do not tolerate a gas mixture, the hydrogen must be removed again. This applies in particular to industrial customers sensitive to gas quality. By signing the cooperation agreement to thi... read more...

12 May 2020 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Deutsche Windtechnik is seeing strong growth in the number of Senvion turbines under contract. Service contracts have been signed for 110 additional turbines at 32 wind farms since the beginning of the year, ranging from type MM92 to type 6.2M. The onshore wind farms are located in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK and include a wide range of turbine types of all technology generations. Deutsche Windtechnik's total portfolio of Senvion wind turbines now comprises 2,446 MW. This development is the result of the increasing global demand for the comprehensive services provided by Deutsche Windtechnik, which include technical support and spare parts management. 69 ... read more...

11 May 2020 | • Sales rise to EUR 964.6 million in Q1 2020 • EBITDA margin at 1.4 percent • Orders of 1.6 GW in Q1 2020 • Order book for projects and services at EUR 8.4 billion • Guarantee facility refinanced until April 2023 • Guidance for 2020 withdrawn due to COVID-19 Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) confirms the preliminary figures released on 5 May 2020. Sales in the first quarter of 2020 increased to EUR 964.6 million (Q1/2019: EUR 398.9 million). Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose to EUR 13.1 million (Q1/2019: EUR 3.3 million), showing an EBITDA margin of 1.4 percent (Q1/2019: 0.8 percent). The increase... read more...

08 May 2020 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - The consulting firm Capcora, spezialized on real assets, is expanding its Energy & Infrastructure team to meet the increased demand for tailor-made M&A and financial advisory. As of May 2020 Henning Prigge starts as Investment Director at Capcora. Born in Westphalia, Henning Prigge has been working in the renewable energy sector for 13 years and gained extensive market expertise in different positions in the fields of asset management, project development and science. Most recently, he was a member of the management board at InvestInvent AG in Zurich, responsible for the acquisition and asset management of a wind farm portfolio in Germany and France... read more...

05 May 2020 | Wilhelmshaven / Rethem (renewablepress) - Most of the older wind turbines (WTGs) are fed with extremely low remuneration after the expiry of the remuneration under the EEG. It is therefore logical, if possible, to feed the electricity directly into adjacent consumption centers such as production plants. The catch is that the grid connection may have to be switched. From today’s grid operation in terms of grid stability, the requirement arises that the old WTGs must then also comply with the new grid connection rules like the country-specific „Network Code Requirements for Generators“ (NC RfG). 20 years ago, only the large power plants were responsible for grid security. The low feed-in... read more...