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27 Sep 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has obtained the Equipment Certificate (UGE) required in Spain for connection to the grid for the N149/4.0-4.5 turbine as well as the Component Certificate (CAMGE) for its own Wind Farm Controller (CWE). Both certificates confirm the required standard-compliant grid connection behaviour according to the Norma Técnica de Supervisión 2.1 (NTS) by the FGH certification body (FGH Zertifizierungsstelle). These certificates have been required for the connection of wind turbines to the grid in Spain since mid-2020 and have to be provided within two years. The Nordex Group already has the certificates for t...... read more...

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23 Sep 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received another order from Poland. For its regular customer, KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co. KG ("KGAL"), the manufacturer is supplying nine N131/3000 turbines for the 27 MW "Rywald" wind farm. In addition to installation and commissioning, the order also includes a Premium Service contract for the maintenance and servicing of the turbines over 15 years with a double extension option for a further five years. The "Rywald" wind farm will be built around 200 kilometres northwest of Warsaw. Construction is scheduled to begin in mid-2022. The Nordex Group supplies the turbines of the 3MW ...... read more...

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22 Sep 2021 | Oldenburg/Athensg (renewablepress) - The Greek energy provider WATT+VOLT has contracted the German IT companies emsys VPP and energy & meteo systems to provide their Virtual Power Plant and power forecasting services to its new established aggregator unit. This new business unit will expand WATT+VOLT’s service portfolio which includes trade and supply of electricity and natural gas, by facilitating the participation of its own but also third parties’ assets in the Greek power market. With emsys VPP’s Virtual Power Plant, Watt+Volt has chosen the market-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for digitally connecting large number of d...... read more...

Mustafa Özen, new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) SkySails Group GmbH © Mustafa Özen

16 Sep 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - Mustafa Özen is joining the SkySails Group GmbH’s Management Board on October 1st 2021 as the company’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mustafa Özen has more than 20 years of experience in the strategic and operational management of companies throughout the energy industry. He has been the CFO of the market-leading green electricity provider Lichtblick SE, for the last 12 years. The SkySails Group GmbH will benefit from Mustafa Özen´s extensive experience within central key areas, such as the guidance and implementation of M&A processes, the management of growth phases, as well as the digitalization and optimizat...... read more...

Jean-Marc Bazenet, Chief International Officer, VSB Group © VSB Group

16 Sep 2021 | Dresden (renewablepress) - VSB is expanding its management: Jean-Marc Bazenet will be appointed Chief International Officer from 1 October 2021. Jean-Marc Bazenet brings with him 20 years of experience in the German-French energy sector and will in future tap and expand new markets for wind and photovoltaics. The VSB Group has been a successful market player for 25 years in the development, planning and operational management of wind farms and photovoltaic plants. The company has a particularly strong presence in Germany, France and Poland, and now also in Finland and Italy. In parallel, the group of companies is growing steadily and with ...... read more...

Giuseppe De Benedictis, VSB Energia Verde Italia Srl © VSB Holding GmbH

09 Sep 2021 | Dresden/Rome (renewablepress) - Project developer and operator VSB is focusing on further regionalisation as renewable energies go from strength to strength in Italy. It has opened a new office in the capital Rome for this purpose. Wind energy and photovoltaic projects in central Italy will be handled from here in the future. This includes both securing land and approval planning all the way to construction. VSB has been planning and developing wind energy and photovoltaic projects in Italy since 2011. The Rome location is an ideal addition to VSB’s existing branches in Palermo and Potenza, which have so far mainly served the country’s so...... read more...

NOTUS energy in Montpellier © NOTUS energy

09 Sep 2021 | Paris (renewablepress) - Paris, 09.09.2021: Along the French Mediterranean coast in the regions of Occitanie, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Auvergne-Rhone-Alps, NOTUS energy currently looks at a development pipeline for solar power plants with a capacity of 90 megawatts. Furthermore, NOTUS energy is in contact with landowners and municipalities to promote the planning, construction and operation of wind turbines. Excellent conditions for photovoltaics in the south of France "The south of France provides excellent locations for photovoltaics, with up to 1500 kWh/kWp, solar irradiation is about a third higher than on the Atlantic...... read more...

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08 Sep 2021 | Bremen, Germany/Houston, Texas (renewablepress) - As of September 1, 2021, Deutsche Windtechnik US has doubled their current count of travel-ing technicians with a signed purchase agreement for Cooke Power Services “Wind turbine maintenance and services” business segment. Deutsche Windtechnik US will address the biggest challenge facing renewable industry today: Finding experienced technicians. The acquisition also includes existing customer contracts, including 50 MW of Mitsubishi (MHI) wind turbines under long term service agreements. All 38 employees of this section will join Deutsche Windtechnik. The acquisition of Cooke Power Service...... read more...

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08 Sep 2021 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - With twelve new projects in July and August, the Nordex Group has been able to record a successful order intake on the Germany market over the past few summer months. The Nordex Group will be supplying turbines for projects totalling more than 123 MW in Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and North-Rhine Westphalia. Installation and commissioning of the turbines is scheduled for 2022. The largest of these projects is to be installed in Brandenburg. For this the Nordex Group will be supplying six N149 turbines on 125-metre tubular steel towers for a 30.6 MW wind farm "We are seeing a further increase...... read more...

Special designs such as the ground-based winch system (GBWS) are being further developed at the Rennerod technology centre, GFW's former headquarters. © Deutsche Windtechnik

06 Sep 2021 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Deutsche Windtechnik AG and GFW Gesellschaft für Windenergie GmbH & Co KG have been collaborating since the beginning of 2020 on a wide range of maintenance tasks for wind turbines, in particular for Fuhrländer, Senvion and Nordex turbines. In July 2021, GFW was fully merged with Deutsche Windtechnik, meaning that GFW has ceased to be an independent company. Since this process is simply a transfer of operations, all contracts will remain valid and automatically become the responsibility of Deutsche Windtechnik. Management will also partially change in the course of the merger: Jürgen Fuhrländer will be heading up...... read more...