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16 Feb 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has secured an order for a total of 33 MW for a wind farm in the Netherlands. The Nordex Group will supply nine N117/3600 turbines for the "Den Tol" wind farm. The turbines will be supplied in the 3.675 MW operating mode. The order also includes a Premium Service contract for the turbines covering a period of 25 years. "Den Tol" will be built in the east of the Netherlands, near Netterden, close to the Dutch-German border. The wind farm has been developed over a period of many years by a group of local farmers together with Windunie Development, a Dutch specialist in the development and operatio...... read more...

© wpd windmanager GmbH & Co. KG

10 Feb 2021 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Quality management, processes and operating procedures – these were probably three of the most frequently used terms in recent years at wpd windmanager GmbH & Co. KG. In 2018, the company decided to have its business processes certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015. Now, the operating manager of wind farms and solar projects, headquartered in Bremen, has been successfully audited by DQS GmbH – the German society for the certification of management systems. And it did so with flying colors: "In the case of an initial certification that was prepared and carried out without external consultants, it is not often...... read more...

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10 Feb 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has again received an order from its regular customer Enel Green Power, a subsidiary of Enel S.p.A., comprising seven N133 turbines for a wind farm in Italy. The turbines will be installed at a 30 MW wind farm in the Basilicata region in the south of the country. The contract also includes a service contract of the turbines for an initial two-year contract. The construction and completion of the wind farm will take place at the beginning of 2022. In 2020, the Nordex Group installed a capacity of 41 MW in three projects in Italy, and is currently installing 65 MW beside of this new contract in...... read more...

14 Vestas V 90 wind turbines add to EWE’s onshore portfolio © Vestas Wind Systems AS

03 Feb 2021 | Oldenburg, Zurich (renewablepress) - EWE ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN GmbH in Oldenburg has expanded its portfolio by four wind farms with a total capacity of 28 megawatts (MW). The facilities stem from a renewable energy fond of InvestInvent AG (Zurich). The wind farms sold are in Hesse (Steinau, 8 MW), North Rhine-Westphalia (Bad Berleburg, 4 MW) and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (Petersdorf, 8 MW). An additional part of the transaction is the Stretense wind farm in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (8 MW), which EWE ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN took over from InvestInvent in the spring of 2020. All facilities purchased feature Vestas V90 wind turbines and ha...... read more...

The trailing edge spoiler EvoFlap for the blade root area, divided into 7 segments. © Evoblade

02 Feb 2021 | Bremen, Germany (renewablepress) - The wind energy start-up evoblade, a spin-off of the Institute of Aerospace Technology (IAT) of the University of Applied Sciences Bremen, has developed a retrofittable spoiler for rotor blades with the help of Deutsche Windtechnik and Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen. The results of a side-by-side study of testing and optimising the EvoFlap now confirm that installing the spoiler can improve the aerodynamic flow in the area of the blade root, resulting in improved efficiency and performance of the system. "Rotor blades have a significant impact on the technical and economic performance of a wind turbine,...... read more...

Gunnarby wind farm in Sweden: Deutsche Windtechnik provides maintenance for eight Siemens SWT 2,3 DD turbines. © Wallenstam / perpixel.se

28 Jan 2021 | Varberg, Sweden (renewablepress) - The independent maintenance provider Deutsche Windtechnik is further expanding its service portfolio and has signed a contract to provide full maintenance for eight Siemens SWT 2,3 DD wind turbines at the Gunnarby wind farm in Sweden. The contract comes into effect in February 2021 and has a term of ten years. The turbine operator is the real estate company Wallenstam, which specialises in sustainable development and focuses on the new construction and management of residential and commercial properties, mainly in Stockholm and Gothenburg. At the beginning of 2013, Wallenstam was the first real estate co...... read more...

Deutsche Windtechnik is building further structures in the US in response to the strong growth. © Deutsche Windtechnik AG

26 Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas / Bremen, Germany (renewablepress) - The US unit of Deutsche Windtechnik, founded in 2018, can look back on an outstanding record year. This year alone the US branch has experienced a growth of more than 700% where the growth is expected to continue in 2021. Particularly noteworthy are the new contracts that have made the company responsible for more than 1 GW in the US alone. The increase in service contracts is being shouldered by more than 100 new employees taken on in the operational and administrative areas. Among them are experts in Mitsubishi and GE turbine technology, which are new additions to the service portfolio. Tr...... read more...

Evidence of the increasing market maturity of subsidy-free renewable energies in Germany: Solar park Metzdorf II © juwi AG

20 Jan 2021 | Wörrstadt/Tübingen (renewablepress) - In Metzdorf in Brandenburg, around 50 kilometers northwest of Frankfurt an der Oder, the juwi group has built a 7.8-megawatt (MW) solar park and has now successfully handed it over to the operator, Stadtwerke Tübingen (swt). The special fact about the project: The solar park in the district of Märkisch-Oderland does not require the EEG remuneration. Planning, construction and marketing took place completely outside of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG). The project is thus further evidence of the increasing market maturity of renewable energies in Germany. "We are breaking new ground ...... read more...

Development funding for merchant solar projects in Italy © Capcora GmbH

19 Jan 2021 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - UK based Alta Capital Limited (“Alta Capital”) completed its third round of fundraising through a convertible bond issue from its wholly owned Italian holding company. The development finance facility will support a pipeline of merchant solar PV projects with a capacity of 840 MWp in Italy currently due to be constructed in 2021 and 2022. The unlisted bonds were entirely subscribed by a European debt fund. Capcora acted as financial advisor to Alta Capital and was responsible for sourcing the investors and structuring the deal. The pipeline is composed by 9 independent projects in a size between 10 MWp ...... read more...

© Nordex SE

15 Jan 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - Driven by strong demand seen towards the end of the year, the Nordex Group secured orders for 491 wind turbine systems with a total output of 2,261 megawatts (MW) in the fourth quarter of 2020 (Q4 2019: 1,477 MW). In 2020, the company received firm orders for a total of 1,331 wind turbines with an output of 6,020 MW, almost matching the high order intake of the previous year despite occasional delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic (2019: 6,207 MW). The share attributable to the efficient and high-margin Delta4000 wind turbines increased to 81 percent for the full year (2019: 44 percent). Launched only in ...... read more...