Windfarm Selac in Kosovo: Largest direct investment since country’s founding © NOTUS energy

21 Oct 2021 | Potsdam (renewablepress) - In the mountains around 40 kilometers northeast of the capital Pristina, NOTUS energy has completed construction on Kosovo's largest wind farm, including a new substation. The 27 wind turbines in the Selac windfarm provide electricity for more than 100,000 households, accounting for up to ten percent of Kosovo's electricity consumption. The wind farm near the town of Mitrovica and the village of Bajgora (Bajgorë) is an important milestone for Kosovo on its way to an autonomous and renewable energy supply. "We are very proud to have been able to make a significant contribution to this outstanding project," says ...... read more...

Deutsche WindGuard is ISO 45001 certified © Deutsche WindGuard

19 Oct 2021 | Varel (renewablepress) - With the successful certification according to ISO 45001, Deutsche WindGuard has now firmly embedded its occupational health and safety management system in its corporate philosophy. “Workplace safety and the health of our employees are top priorities in our organisation. This certification in accordance with the new, internationally recognized standard is therefore an important milestone that we have consistently worked towards over the recent months,“ says Dr. Dennis Kruse, Managing Director of Deutsche WindGuard, “the certificate not only strengthens our attractiveness as an employer. As a service provider i...... read more...

© Nordex SE

14 Oct 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - In the third quarter of 2021, the Nordex Group received orders for 389 wind turbines with a total rated output of 1,829 megawatts (MW), up from 271 wind turbines with 1,229 MW in the third quarter of the previous year. Turbines of the Delta4000 series accounted for 1,391 MW or 76 percent of these orders (Q3/2020: 86 percent). Overall, the Nordex Group generated order intake (excluding service business) of 4,610 MW in the first nine months (9M/2020: 3,759 MW), which includes a high proportion of around 80 percent for the Delta4000 series. In this context, the largest single order in the third quarter came from A...... read more...

Robert Conrad © Energiequelle GmbH

12 Oct 2021 | Rennes, France / Kallinchen, Germany (renewablepress) - There has been a change of management at the French Energiequelle subsidiary P&T Technologie due to succession. Robert Conrad, who has been running the business in Rennes since 2012, retired in October. He handed over the reins to his successor Jan Ducouret, who joined P&T on 1 June and has already been appointed Managing Director. Robert Conrad can look back on an extremely successful career: 17 wind farms with a total of 82 turbines have been connected to the grid under his management. In Decize, the first P&T solar project was commissioned this year. Two new locations have a...... read more...

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07 Oct 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - End of September, the Nordex Group won another order from Ukraine. For the Eco-Optima Group, the Nordex Group is supplying ten N149/5.X turbines for the 54.6 MW "Skolivska" wind farm. The order also includes a Premium Service contract for the maintenance of the turbines over a period of 15 years. The "Skolivska" wind farm is the first Ukrainian project to use Nordex turbines in the 5 MW class. The wind farm is being built near the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. Installation is scheduled to start in spring 2022. “We are very pleased to note that the implementation for the start of the Skolivska wind farm proj...... read more...

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06 Oct 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group once again scores points with orders in Poland. For two projects totalling 70.9 MW, the Nordex Group is supplying 20 N117/3600 turbines. Both orders which the Nordex Group received end of September also include a Premium Service for the maintenance and servicing of the turbines over a period of 15 years and the option to extend this twice by five years. The Nordex Group will supply and install eleven of the turbines in the 38.5 MW "Liskowo" wind farm in northern Poland. The customer, the Danish project developer European Energy A/S, has ordered for its sixth wind farm in the country the N117/3600...... read more...

Acquisition and financing of new projects in Poland © SUNfarming

05 Oct 2021 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - SUNfarming Group from Erkner receives a new bridge financing facility for acquisition and construction of ready-to-build and tariff-secured photovoltaic projects in Poland. Construction of the first projects is expected to start in the short term with a scheduled completion date in Q1 2022. Capcora, a consulting firm specialised on real assets, was again mandated as financial advisor with structuring of the transaction and debt sourcing. With acquisition and financing of a solar portfolio with a total capacity of 20 MWp, SUNfarming initiates the next stage of expansion in Poland. The new portfolio, to b...... read more...

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05 Oct 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - Business in Ukraine continues to improve for the Nordex Group: End of September, the regular Turkish customer, Eksim Holding of Istanbul, ordered 14 N149/4.X turbines for its first wind project in Ukraine. The order also includes a Premium Service contract covering a period of 15 years. The "Skole" wind farm, with a total capacity of 67.2 MW, will be built near the city of Skole in West Ukraine. Installation of the turbines is scheduled to start in March 2022. The fourteen turbines will then feed clean electricity into the Ukrainian grid as of in the third quarter of 2022 at full capacity. The Nordex Group will s...... read more...

© NOTUS energy

01 Oct 2021 | Paris (renewablepress) - The 9 turbines of the "Plaine d’Estrées" wind farm in northern France produce electricity for 12,000 households and generate tax revenue for the municipalities of Bailleul-le-Soc, Fouilleuse and Épineuse west of Compiègne as well as for their respective communities of communes. "We would like to express our special thanks to the mayors of the municipalities, who have been very committed to supporting us over many years," explains Heiner Röger, Managing Director of NOTUS energy. The new wind farm is located near Compiègne (Oise) to the north-east of Paris. The plain is characterised by large agricultural fields and ...... read more...

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01 Oct 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - End of September, the Nordex Group received an order for 99.5 MW from Oweninny Power DAC - a joint venture between ESB and Bord na Móna - from Ireland. The order includes the delivery and installation of 31 N117/3600 turbines rated at reduced 3.21 MW output, as well as a premium service for the maintenance and servicing of the turbines over a period of 15 years. The project’s grid connection size and electricity export is 83 MW. The “Oweninny 2” wind farm will be built in County Mayo in the West of Ireland. The start of deliveries and installation of the turbines on project-specific 117.5 meter tubular steel towe...... read more...