Deutsche Windtechnik has now expanded its service for Enercon turbines to include the French wind energy market. © Deutsche Windtechnik AG

14 Mar 2023 | Bremen (renewablepress) - For the first time, Deutsche Windtechnik has concluded service contracts for the maintenance of Enercon wind turbines in France. The agreements with the companies belonging to the Swiss energy supplier IWB group as well as a French energy supplier, which were signed at the beginning of this year, cover full maintenance for a total of 22 Enercon E70 turbines including large components. The 16 turbines operated by IWB are located at the three wind farms Maisnieres, Méautis-Auvers and Saucourt. The remaining six turbines belong also to a wind farm in northern France. Deutsche Windtechnik already provides manufactu...... read more...

Capcora opens office in Warsaw and appoints Bartlomiej Hofman as new director © Capcora

14 Mar 2023 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - Capcora, a leading independent financial advisory firm specialized in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors, announces the opening of its Polish office in Warsaw to increase its coverage in one of Europe’s largest renewable energy markets. The effort will be led by former banker Bartlomiej Hofman, who is the newly appointed director of the Warsaw office. The Polish renewable market is one of the central markets for Europe’s energy transition. The scope of transformation of the Polish energy sector is much wider and more expensive than in the majority of EU countries. One of the main reasons be...... read more...

© Nordex SE

14 Mar 2023 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received an order from a project company managed by e-wikom GmbH for the supply and installation of nine turbines with a total of 50.4 MW for the Ostprignitz wind farm in Brandenburg, Germany. Service and maintenance of the turbines for 20 years is also included in the order. At the beginning of 2024 the Nordex Group is to supply eight N149/5.X turbines as well as one N133/4800 turbine, all of them with a hub height of 164 metres. The turbines in the Ostprignitz wind farm will be installed in a row parallel to the Berlin-Hamburg A24 motorway, near to the Wittstock Dosse interchange. Apart fr...... read more...

Preparations in the Mikonkeidas project area © Energiequelle GmbH

09 Mar 2023 | Kristiinankaupunki (renewablepress) - At the beginning of February, Energiequelle started construction work on the largest Energiequelle wind farm in Finland to date. The Mikonkeidas wind farm is being built in Kristiinankaupunki, on the west coast of Finland. The infrastructure is currently being expanded and the foundations are being built. The final installation of the 16 type SG 6.6-170 wind energy turbines, each with a hub height of 145 metres and a rated output of up to 6.6 MW, is planned for 2024. By the beginning of 2025, the entire wind farm should be ready for commercial use and produce clean energy for 75,000 households. ...... read more...

© © Nordex SE / U. Mertens

09 Mar 2023 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group (ISIN: DE000A0D6554) today published preliminary results for fiscal year 2022 confirming its revised annual guidance. According to these preliminary results, the Company generated consolidated sales of EUR 5.7 billion (previous year: EUR 5.4 billion) and reached the upper end of the guidance range of EUR 5.2 to 5.7 billion. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to minus EUR 244 million (previous year: EUR 53 million) which corresponds to an EBITDA margin of minus 4.3 percent (previous year: 1.0 percent). The financial performance in the year was mainl...... read more...

VSB Service GmbH deploys artificial intelligence from Turbit to monitor its growing wind portfolio © VSB Group

08 Mar 2023 | Dresden/Berlin (renewablepress) - VSB Service GmbH, a company of the internationally active VSB Group, currently manages wind energy, solar plants, and substations with a capacity of about 1.4 GW. With the use of Turbit's artificial intelligence for the wind energy business unit, VSB Service GmbH is taking the next step after almost 2.5 years of testing to produce green energy even more efficiently. Turbit has been developing AI infrastructure for wind turbine monitoring for five years to bring predictive maintenance and AI-supported performance monitoring with intelligent alarms into the daily work of technical operations management. ...... read more...

Qualitas Energy Windfarm © Qualitas Energy

06 Mar 2023 | Berlin (renewablepress) - Qualitas Energy, a global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, has won the auction for two wind projects in Germany. The company will repower two wind farms located in Brandenburg and in North Rhine-Westphalia through its German subsidiary, Qualitas Energy Deutschland GmbH. Turbine technologies have developed rapidly since the beginning of wind energy. Today, it is possible to multiply the production of renewable wind power in the same area and thus make a significantly greater contribution to climate protection. In...... read more...

Qualitas Energy Windfarm © Qualitas Energy

02 Mar 2023 | Berlin (renewablepress) - Qualitas Energy, a global investment and management platform focused on renewable energy, energy transition, and sustainable infrastructure investment, has acquired through Qualitas Energy Deutschland GmbH, its subsidiary in Germany, two wind projects in the country with a total capacity of 80 MW. The company plans to repower wind farm Apensen and will develop a wind project in Blumberg to achieve this volume of environmentally friendly energy production. Qualitas Energy Deutschland GmbH has completed the acquisition of close to 90% of Apensen wind farm -near Hamburg- after reaching an agreement with around ...... read more...

© Nordex SE / U. Mertens

01 Mar 2023 | Hamburg (renewablepress) - The Nordex Group has received two orders for a total of 109.3 MW in Sweden and Finland from its regular customer wpd. The Nordex Group is supplying ten N163/6.X turbines for the Tomasliden wind farm in Sweden. For the Finnish "Oulainen" project wpd placed an order with the Nordex Group for the delivery of seven N163/5.X turbines. Both orders also include a premium service contract for the maintenance of the turbines for 15 years with an extension option for a further five years. The 68 MW "Tomasliden" wind farm - a wind project which comprises N163/6.X turbines for the first time in Sweden - is being built in Ves...... read more...

EDF Renewables erwirbt 529 MWp von MEC Energy © Capcora

28 Feb 2023 | Frankfurt am Main (renewablepress) - Capcora, a German consulting company, acted as the exclusive sell-side M&A advisor to MEC Energy, a German project developer and part of the Düsseldorf-based MEC Group. In the transaction, EDF Renewables, a leading global renewable energy player, acquired 17 greenfield photovoltaic projects with a total capacity of 529 MWp from MEC Energy in Germany. The transaction was structured as a conditional sale and purchase agreement including development service arrangements for the 17 ground-mounted PV projects. Representing a total installed capacity of 529 MWp, the pipeline contains individual project sizes...... read more...