03 Aug 2020 | • The 2.7 GW portfolio includes projects in France, Spain, Sweden and Poland • Strong boost to Nordex’s capital structure • Cash consideration of EUR 402.5 million before deduction of any customary fees, taxes and any other adjustments • Further reinforcing the growth prospects, underpinned by a strong order book Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group leverages the current market environment with strong investor interest for projects under development and has decided to accelerate the value creation from a part of its project development pipeline in a single transaction. Now, RWE and Nordex have agreed on a sale of this business to the German energy supplier. Thi... read more...

30 Jul 2020 | - First project from 300 MW framework contract for Germany Hamburg (renewablepress) - Nordex Group has delivered turbines for the wind farm developer UKA for the first time and completed the first construction phase of a wind farm in Germany. The 13.5 MW wind farm "Leeskow II & IV" with three N149/4.0-4.5 turbines in Lower Lusatia in Brandenburg is the first project that the Nordex Group has now completed on the basis of a framework agreement concluded with UKA at the beginning of 2020. In the coming years, UKA will be able to call up turbines with a total volume of more than 300 megawatts for German projects, which will then be supplied and installed by the Nordex Group. The framewor... read more...

29 Jul 2020 | - The project partners SkySails Power, EnBW, EWE OSS, and Leibniz Universität Hannover have successfully tested the operation of an airborne wind energy system employing power kites of up to 120 m² in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Hannover, Oldenburg (renewablepress) - Germany's first airborne wind energy system has passed a series of essential tests in Schleswig-Holstein. The pilot unit can now go into continuous operation. The evaluation according to aviation law requirements included the validation of operational and safety concepts for day and nighttime operation. The pilot unit was constructed as part of the "SkyPower100" project funded by the Federal Ministry of Eco... read more...

29 Jul 2020 | - Manufacturer to supply 41 x N149/4.0-4.5 turbines Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received an order for the supply of 41 N149/4.0-4.5 turbines for a wind farm in Colombia. The order also includes a service agreement for a period of two years with an option to extend initially by three and subsequently a further five years. The N149/4.0-4.5 turbines with a rotor diameter of 149 metres will be installed on site on tubular steel towers with a hub height of 105 metres. The project name and customer are undisclosed. According to associations, Colombia has considerable wind potential in various regions. On the basis of official figures, 1,278 wind turbine generato... read more...

17 Jul 2020 | DIN SPEC 4866 for the first time lays down standards - on the initiative of RDRWind e.V. Hanover/Berlin (renewablepress) - Uniform standards for the first time exist for dismantling and recycling of wind turbines: On July 17, 2020 the German Institute for Standardization e.V. published the DIN SPEC 4866, which is to be considered as industry standard in future. On the initiative of RDRWind e.V., a consortium of 25 companies has developed this document over the period of one year. The consortium included experts from the wind energy industry, recycling experts, scientists as well as officials of authorities, such as the Federal Environment Agency. The German wind energy industry is f... read more...

16 Jul 2020 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group was able to obtain numerous firm orders in the second quarter of 2020 despite the difficult circumstances created by the coronavirus pandemic. From April to June, customers ordered 217 wind turbines for projects with a combined output of 888.0 megawatts (MW) (Q2 2019: 2,003.3 MW). The intake of firm orders in the Projects segment (excluding the service business) reached a volume of 2,531.9 MW in the first half of 2020 (H1 2019: 3,038.4 MW). Europe accounted for 83 percent of the order intake in the second quarter of 2020, with major projects in Spain and Ireland contributing to this share. Further orders were placed in Brazil (Latin America regi... read more...

15 Jul 2020 | • Optimisation of operating results of wind power plants by specific evaluation of plant data • New database WiPPeX (Wind Power Performance Data Exchange) from VGB PowerTech provides comparative data - 50,000 data sets per plant and year • Benchmarks for the wind power plant operator individually possible • Server base in Germany ensures security of data • Participation in WiPPeX open for all operators Essen (renewablepress) - VGB PowerTech, the technical association of power plant operators, has now launched its independent database for the comparison of wind turbine platforms under the abbreviation WiPPeX (Wind Power Performance Data Exchange). The structure o... read more...

14 Jul 2020 | • Wind farm to be equipped with seven Nordex N163/5.X turbines • First Finnish wind farm of the VSB Group Hamburg (renewablepress) - The German project developer VSB has commissioned the Nordex Group to equip its first Finnish wind farm, named "Juurakko", with the manufacturer’s latest 5 MW turbine technology for light-wind sites. As of spring 2022, the Nordex Group will install seven N163/5.X turbines on the west coast of Finland near the town of Kalajoki. The Group will also be responsible for full servicing of the turbines on the basis of a Premium Service contract for a period of 20 years. The N163/5.X turbine model is specifically designed for sites with lower wind sp... read more...

10 Jul 2020 | • Largest wind farm in Spain generating electricity at market price • First Spanish project for Enlight Renewable Energy Hamburg (renewablepress) - End of June, the Nordex Group has obtained a large order from Spain: the Group will supply and install N149/4.0-4.5 turbines in the 4.8 MW operating mode for the 312 MW "Gecama" wind farm. The customer is Enlight Renewable Energy, an Israeli power utility using renewable energy. "Gecama" is the first project in Spain for the company, which operates in Israel and Europe, and the first joint project with the Nordex Group. The order also includes a Premium Service contract covering a period of 20 years. The "Gecama" project is being... read more...

09 Jul 2020 | München (renewablepress) - ROBUR WIND GmbH takes over the business of REETEC GmbH with effect from July 1, 2020 and continues the operations at the location in Bremen. With now almost 1,000 colleagues in Europe, North and South America, ROBUR WIND offers its customers the complete range of services for the long-term economic success of their wind turbines, on- and offshore. “When ROBUR was founded in 2015, we focused on the ecological change in the industry and consistently advanced the expansion of the wind group in ROBUR”, explained Jan-Jörg Müller-Seiler, CEO and Managing Partner of ROBUR. “The service and the experience of the almost 120 colleagues at REETEC strengthen our le... read more...