16 Oct 2019 | NOTUS energy will present its new partnership offensive in France at the National Wind Energy Symposium 2019 on 16 and 17 October in Paris. The country is an important market for NOTUS: in recent years, the project pipeline in France has grown to almost 700 megawatts of wind power. Paris (renewablepress) - "We are optimistic about the French wind energy market," explains Heinrich Lieser, President NOTUS énergie France in Paris. With an installed capacity of 523 megawatts (MW) in the first half of 2019, France led the statistics for the installation of wind power in Europe for the first time. "France is currently leading the way in wind energy in Europe. And we believe that the govern... read more...

15 Oct 2019 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Deutsche Windtechnik has received another order to provide maintenance for offshore wind turbines. Following offshore wind farm alpha ventus and offshore wind farm Riffgat, the independent full-service provider is now also responsible for maintenance of the 32 Senvion 6.3M 152 turbines at Trianel Windpark Borkum II. The main service tasks include troubleshooting the wind turbines (including guaranteed availability), remote fault elimination, spare parts management and logistics from Borkum or Emden. "We are delighted to have found an experienced and reliable partner in Deutsche Windtechnik to take over the service contract for the Senvion turbines," said Klaus ... read more...

15 Oct 2019 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group today announced that in the third quarter of 2019 its customers ordered 436 wind turbines with a total output of 1,700 megawatts (Q3 2018: 974 MW) for projects in 14 countries. Europe accounts for 60 percent of orders from July to September, the USA for 28 percent and Latin America for 12 percent. At 49 percent, the latest generation turbine types – the Delta4000 platform – made up almost half of the order volume in the third quarter. Patxi Landa, Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the Nordex Group, commented: “We continue to see strong demand for our wind turbine systems in Europe and overseas, with the new Delta4000 series recording particula... read more...

11 Oct 2019 | - total volume increased to 129 MW Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - Capcora, a consulting firm specialized on real assets, advised a leading German project developer on the expansion of an existing development bridge financing facility by adding new onshore wind project developments to the framework. The initial financing structure for a wind portfolio with 82 MW in Germany, France and Belgium was only launched in April 2019. The portfolio will be extended by new projects with a planned capacity of approx. 47 MW in Germany to a total volume of 129 MW. The expansion capital is intended to finance the development costs of four German wind projects with a total of 10 wind turbines in ... read more...

08 Oct 2019 | Zaragoza, Spain (renewablepress) - Further 146 Gamesa wind turbines have been added to Deutsche Windtechnik’s Spanish subdivision as part of full service agreements. The G58 turbines with a total of 124 MW rated capacity are clustered in three wind farms in Castilla-La Mancha. The new contract confirms the reliability and multi-brand expertise of the independent service provider, having signed service agreements for 130 Gamesa G80 and G52 turbines in Spain in April 2019 and expanding its presence and performance in the country. Representing the first major project for the German company in the southern regions of the peninsula, the O&M activities have already started and will be carried... read more...

01 Oct 2019 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Energiekontor AG has sold the Waldfeucht wind farm to the Hamburg-based CEE Group. The Waldfeucht wind farm is located in North Rhine-Westphalia west of Heinsberg not far from the border with the Netherlands. There, three Nordex wind turbines with a hub height of 125 m and a capacity of 4.5 MW each will generate an expected annual yield of around 35 million kilowatt hours. This amount of electricity is mathematically sufficient to cover the needs of more than 8,500 households. Peter Szabo, CEO of Energiekontor AG, is satisfied: "The sales process of the Waldfeucht wind farm went according to plan and represents an important contribution to the 2019 annual result.... read more...

30 Sep 2019 | Nîmes (renewablepress) - VSB Énergies nouvelles has been selected as official national supplier for photovoltaic solutions for 1,590 Système U stores - a French retailers’ cooperative. Having set itself ambitious goals in the reduction of the business’s carbon emissions, the supermarket cooperative Système U launched an official solar tender at the beginning of 2019 to select three photovoltaic suppliers that are able to support its ambitions. VSB is one of the selected suppliers out of twelve that took part in the tender. VSB Énergies nouvelles with its photovoltaic expertise along the entire value chain will support the independent store managers of Système U during the who... read more...

27 Sep 2019 | Freiburg (renewablepress) - Since the 23rd of September 2019 an Agro-photovoltaic open space plant with 4,1 MW peak is built in Aasen, a district of Donaueschingen. Responsible for the project is the company Next2Sun GmbH, who has had first successes with an identical Agro-photovoltaic plant with an energy output of 2 MW peak. Agro- photovoltaics – a new approach With the innovative mounting system of the Next2Sun the coexistence of solar power generation and agriculture becomes possible. Thus, herbage will continue to be harvested on the solar park area in the future. Likewise, due to the vertical assembly of the frameless glass-glass modules, green stripes under the modules wil... read more...

24 Sep 2019 | wpd windmanager takes over management of the wind farm Plouguin for wiwi consult Bremen (renewablepress) - As of September 1, 2019, wpd windmanager GmbH & Co. KG assumes the operational management of the wind farm Plouguin in the French region of Brittany. For the wiwi consult GmbH & Co. KG the operational manager with its location in the French Arras takes on the commercial and technical operations management for five Enercon E-66 turbines with a total capacity of 10 MW. Special feature of the cooperation: The wind farm Plouguin has concluded a power purchase agreement (PPA) with a French energy supplier and receives its renumeration exclusively from the direct marketer. “The PPA com... read more...

24 Sep 2019 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has won an order for more than 110 MW in Turkey. The Group will install 23 N149/4.0-4.5 turbines for the "Söke" wind farm, and they’ll be supplied in the 4.8 MW mode. The customer and future operator of the wind farm is Ulusoy Enerji, which has also contracted Premium Service for the turbines with the Nordex Group for a period of 10 years. The wind farm is being built near the city of Aydin in the west of Turkey, where average annual wind speeds of 6.5 metres per second prevail. Following completion at the end of 2020, the turbines with hub heights of 105 metres will supply more than 286 GWh of clean electricity per year. "I am delighted... read more...