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26 Jul 2024 | Wörrstadt (renewablepress) - In November 2023, Juwi Hellas had acquired a PV portfolio with a capacity of 267 megawatts (MW), consisting of three clusters (160 MW, 40 MW and 67 MW), from Hive Energy Ltd. The projects that have now been sold to Foresight and Mirova are located in the regional units of Fthiotida and Larissa, Central Greece, around 300 kilometers north of Athens. Juwi will implement the project portfolio as an EPC service provider and is therefore responsible for the technical design (engineering), component purchasing (procurement) and construction. Construction is scheduled to start in August 2024, and commissioning is p...... read more...

Foundation of the Enercon turbine E-160 © Energiequelle GmbH

25 Jul 2024 | Eulitz (renewablepress) - Energiequelle GmbH has started construction of two wind turbines in Saxony. In Eulitz (Meißen district), the international project planning company is erecting two Enercon E-160 turbines, each with a hub height of 166 meters and an output of 5.56 megawatts (MW). The construction of the roads, crane pads and foundations has now been completed and the delivery of the large components is imminent. Installation and final commissioning are planned by the end of the year. The plants are expected to supply around 12,000 households with renewable electricity in the future. The estimated yield of the park is expected to...... read more...

© Nordex SE / Ulrich Mertens

25 Jul 2024 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) reported robust financial and operational performance for the first half of 2024, with sales increasing by around 25 percent to EUR 3.4 billion (H1/2023: EUR 2.8 billion). Total performance, including changes in inventories, rose by 16 percent to EUR 3.3 billion (H1/2023: EUR 2.8 billion). Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) significantly improved to EUR 118.0 million in the first half of 2024 (H1/2023: minus EUR 114.3 million). With an EBITDA margin of 3.4 percent, profitability has stabilized at a level above 3 percent during the ...... read more...

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22 Jul 2024 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group is expanding its product portfolio in the 5 MW segment and is launching a turbine variant of the proven Delta4000 platform, which is specially tailored to the requirements of the US market. The N169/5.X has a rotor diameter of 169 meters and a power rating up to 5.5 megawatts. As common with Nordex turbines there will be a range of US optimized towers available. The N169/5.X is particularly suitable for wind regions in the USA without intense turbulence and with low to medium wind speeds. “Expanding our activities in North America is a key element of our strategy. The N169/5.X is one of...... read more...

Qualitas Energy wins BNetzA tender and orders Nordex turbines © iStock/Cavan Images

19 Jul 2024 | Berlin (renewablepress) - Qualitas Energy, a global investment, management, and project development platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, announced today that it has secured the winning Federal Network Agency’s (BNetzA) tender for a 39.9 MW greenfield project in Dalkendorf, Mecklenburg, located in the Rostock district in northern Germany Successful completion of the tender guarantees remuneration for electricity sales over the next 20 years, marking a key milestone in advancing the project. Qualitas Energy aims to begin construction in spring of 2025, with the farm slate...... read more...

© BMWK / Andreas Mertens

16 Jul 2024 | Dauerthal / Berlin (renewablepress) - On 15 July, ENERTRAG received the funding notification for the IPCEI project "Electrolysis Corridor East Germany". IPCEI stands for "Important Projects of Common European Interest" and includes strategic funding projects of the EU Commission for innovation in resource-intensive core market segments. The project is part of the IPCEI Hy2Infra programme, which promotes large-scale electrolyser and infrastructure capacities in Europe. The presentation took place at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) by Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who handed over the funding notification...... read more...

© Nordex SE / Ulrich Mertens

16 Jul 2024 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - On July 12th, the Nordex Group installed the world's first N175/6.X turbine at the Bürgerwindpark Janneby (community wind farm) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. With a rotor swept area of 24,053 square metres and a nominal capacity of up to 6.8 MW, the N175/6.X is the most powerful Nordex turbine specifically for medium and light wind sites. The special feature of the turbine is the single-piece, approximately 86-metre-long rotor blade: both the rotor diameter of 175 metres and the new blade design make a significant contribution to very high performance, especially at light wind speeds. "The installation o...... read more...

© Nordex SE

15 Jul 2024 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - In the first half of 2024 the Nordex Group secured 3,357 MW of orders in the Projects segment (excluding service business), growing by 27 percent compared to previous year’s figure (H1/2023: 2,641 MW). Of this amount 1,271 MW were recorded in the second quarter of 2024 (Q2/2023: 1,620 MW). The average sales price in euros per megawatt of capacity (ASP) continued to remain on a stable level of EUR 0.89 million/MW in the first half of this year (Q2/2024 EUR 0.96) compared to H1/2023 (Q2/2023 EUR 0.89). Between January and June 2024, customers ordered a total of 602 wind turbines for projects in 17 countries. ...... read more...

Wind turbine in the Uckermark region © ENERTRAG / Jewgenij Roppel

12 Jul 2024 | Dauerthal (renewablepress) - ENERTRAG achieved outstanding success in the 2023/24 financial year after evaluating all German projects. With a total of 233 MW of approvals in the wind sector, this is the best result in terms of new approvals ever achieved by ENERTRAG's project development activities. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in particular stood out with 111 approved megawatts. Thanks to political support, numerous projects in Brandenburg, which had stagnated in lengthy approval procedures, were also able to get underway. There was also considerable progress in North Rhine-Westphalia and Central Germany: licences were granted for the fi...... read more...

© Nordex SE

11 Jul 2024 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - At the end of June 2024, the Nordex Group signed a contract with the E energija group for the supply and installation of six N163/6.X wind turbines for a 42 MW wind farm in Lithuania. The order also includes a Premium-Plus service contract for the maintenance of the turbines over 35 years. The wind farm is being developed near the city of Kaunas. The delivery and installation of the Delta4000 series turbines on 159-metre tubular steel towers will begin in the second half of 2025, with commissioning scheduled for the same year. “It is the first of our 3 projects that we plan to start building in central Lithuan...... read more...