Sopi Solar Park © Eiko Kink

18 Jun 2025 | Tallinn/Oldenburg (renewablepress) - Eesti Energia, an Estonian publicly owned energy utility, and emsys VPP, a German provider of Virtual Power Plants, have officially prequalified one of the largest solar parks in the Baltics for providing automatic Frequency Restoration Reserve (aFRR) and manual Frequency Restoration Reserve (mFRR). The Sopi Solar Park is operated by Eesti Energía´s subsidiary Enefit Green. Completed in 2025, the plant has a total capacity of 74 MW and a projected annual electricity output of 75 GWh which covers the annual electricity consumption of approximately 22,500 average Estonian households. Following succes...... read more...

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18 Jun 2025 | Cuxhaven (renewablepress) - PNE Group is once again internationally successful. At the beginning of June 2025, Standard Bank confirmed financial close on the 240MW Khauta South PV site. In addition, financial close for the 110MW Khauta West PV site is expected by the end of July 2025. Financial close marks the final payment milestone in the sales and development services agreements, and thus the completion of the project for WKN Windcurrent (PNE Group’s South African Development team). Early construction has already begun and is expected to be completed in early 2027. In early 2024, PNE AG closed the sale and development services agree...... read more...

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06 Jun 2025 | Gnutz (renewablepress) - In the Schleswig-Holstein district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, the PNE Group has successfully completed the expansion of its wind farm in the municipality of Gnutz. With the commissioning of four additional wind turbines in the Gnutz West I b section, the installed capacity of the site has increased by a further 22.4 megawatts. The expansion comprises two Vestas V162 turbines and two V150 turbines, each with a rated power of 5.6 MW. The new wind turbines have been feeding green electricity into the grid since May 2025, making an important contribution to a sustainable energy supply. With the newly installed cap...... read more...

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05 Jun 2025 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received a new order from Umwelt Management AG UMaAG (UMaAG) of Cuxhaven, Germany. As part of the Drochtersen repowering project in Lower Saxony, the Nordex Group will supply and install a total of eight N163/6.X wind turbines. The order also includes a 20-year premium service contract package that ensures long-term and reliable operation of the wind turbines. The installation of the first turbine is planned for autumn 2026. Full commissioning of all turbines with hybrid towers and hub heights of 164 meters is scheduled for the first quarter of 2027. Uwe Leonhardt, CEO of UMaAG, is convinc...... read more...

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27 May 2025 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received two new contracts in France, covering the delivery and installation of wind turbines for two separate wind farms. The contracts include the supply of six N163/5.X turbines, six N131/3.X units, and one N149/5.X turbine — amounting to a total installed capacity of 64.7 MW. Each contract also includes a multi-year service and maintenance contract to ensure long-term turbine performance and reliability. Turbine deliveries and installations for the wind farms located in the French départements of Morbihan and Aisneare are scheduled to begin in mid-2026. In Morbihan, Generation Delta turbi...... read more...

K2 wind turbine in ENERTRAG's Mattheshöhe wind field © Michael Rassinger

26 May 2025 | Dauerthal (renewablepress) - With the inauguration of the Mattheshöhe wind farm last Friday, ENERTRAG has set another milestone for renewable energy supply in the Uckermark region. Six new ENERCON E138 wind turbines complement the existing field and will supply clean electricity to thousands of households in the future. They are part of the Verbundkraftwerk Uckermark, in which ENERTRAG intelligently combines wind, solar and storage solutions as well as green hydrogen – for a secure and sustainable energy supply in the region. ‘The commissioning of the six wind turbines in the Mattheshöhe project symbolises what sets the Uckermark region...... read more...

Hubert Kowalski, Managing Director VSB Poland © VSB Group

22 May 2025 | Wroclaw/Racibórz/Dresden (renewablepress) - Successful start of operations: Another wind farm from VSB Poland is now online. In the Silesian municipality of Pietrowice Wielkie, the Racibórz wind farm has recently been reliably producing green energy with a total capacity of 41.6 megawatts (MW). The new wind farm will immediately save around 44,000 tons of harmful CO2 emissions per year and supply approximately 36,000 households in the southern Polish Silesia region with cleanly produced electricity. This is ensured by 13 turbines of the Nordex N117 type at the Racibórz wind farm, each with an installed capacity of 3.2 MW. In addition to...... read more...

Arrival of the new MV-FRT tester on the test site in Grevenbroich © windtest grevenbroich gmbh

19 May 2025 | Grevenbroich (renewablepress) - With the commissioning of a new medium-voltage fault ride-through tester (MV-FRT tester), windtest grevenbroich gmbh is expanding its range of services for testing the electrical properties of different electrical generation units to stabilize the power grids of tomorrow. "With our unique MV-FRT container, we are using state-of-the-art technology that enables us to demonstrate grid stability properties at the highest level and to test different electrical generation units in accordance with the latest technical standards. We are very proud of this!" explains Monika Krämer, Managing Director of windtest greve...... read more...

Signing of the agreement between ENERTRAG and green flexibility © Tom Schweers

19 May 2025 | Dauerthal/Kempten (renewablepress) - ENERTRAG and green flexibility are launching their first joint battery storage project: a 60 MW stor-age facility with a capacity of 130 MWh is being built in Tantow (Brandenburg). It will store surplus wind and solar power and feed it back into the grid as needed. This will improve grid stability, reduce curtailments of renewable energies and ensure a secure power supply. Commissioning is scheduled for early 2026. Storage creates flexibility for renewable energies ENERTRAG has been developing and operating wind and solar parks for decades, while green flexibil-ity specialises in large-scale batter...... read more...

Barbara Frencia, CEO, Business Assurance DNV / José Luis Blanco, CEO der Nordex Group © Nordex SE

15 May 2025 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - During a certificate handover ceremony, the Nordex Group was yesterday awarded with unified global certifications by DNV for the following management systems: Quality (ISO 9001), Occupational health and safety (ISO 45001), and Environmental (ISO 14001). Global certifications are essential in the wind industry, as they confirm compliance with internationally recognized standards and provide a competitive advantage by facilitating access to global markets and strengthening customer trust. “Having worked systematically with certifications over many years, we are proud to achieve now our first global certificatio...... read more...