30.01.2025 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd, one of the leading international planners and operators of wind farms and solar parks, has signed a ten-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Netherlands-based company LyondellBasell for the Italian onshore wind project Licata.
The Licata wind farm is located on the southern coast of Sicily and is currently under construction. The seven Vestas V150 turbines with a total capacity of 30 MW will generate around 79,000 megawatt hours of electrical energy per year, which corresponds to the electricity consumption of approximately 32,000 households. It is the first project from a 1.3 GW pipeline in Italy, w...
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25.09.2024 | Bremen (renewablepress) - As one of the market’s leading developers and operators of wind farms in Europe and further important international markets, wpd will be back at WindEnergy in Hamburg from 24 to 27 September. With numerous project successes and a strong project pipeline,... more...
26.03.2024 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Hsinyuan Wind Power Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of wpd, and Bank SinoPac, which is a Taiwanese bank, have closed the financing for wpd’s Hsinyuan wind farm in Taiwan. The wind farm, located in Yunlin County in Lunbei District, comprises six Vestas V136 turbine... more...
19.03.2024 | Bremen (renewablepress) - As one of the market-leading project developers and operators of wind farms in Europe, wpd will once again be represented at WindEurope in Bilbao in 2024, one of the most important international trade fairs. The team represented at the trade fair stand i... more...
12.03.2024 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd is one of the leading project planners and operators of onshore wind energy projects in Europe. With the strong teams of wpd Scandinavia in Stockholm, Sweden, and wpd Suomi in Espoo and Oulu, Finland, the Bremen-based company is also very successful ... more...
16.10.2023 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd has secured the grid access for the two wind farms Broboberget and Lannaberget by signing the grid connection agreement for up to 740 MW installed wind power capacity with the grid operator Ellevio. With this signature the team of wpd Scandinavia has... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - With the conditional order of 103 Siemens Gamesa offshore wind turbines with up to 9 MW capacity each and the start of the main soil investigation at each individual turbine location, wpd has started the realization of the Gennaker offshore wind farm loc... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen/Germany and Collingwood/Australia (renewablepress) - wpd offshore Australia Holding GmbH (wpd), part of wpd group, and Australis Energy Ltd (Australis) have entered into a 50:50 joint venture for three offshore wind energy projects off the coast of Australia. The developme... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen / New York (renewablepress) - Global Infrastructure Partners ("GIP"), a leading independent infrastructure investor, and wpd AG (“wpd”), a leading project developer and independent renewables power producer (IRPP) for onshore wind, offshore wind and solar, are pleased to a... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Speculative reports on a possible sale of Bremer wpd AG are subject of misinformation, as the company announces today. Contrary to various false reports of the past days, there are no wpd AG shares for sale and Nomura Greentech has no consultancy mandate... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - At the end of July 2021, wpd offshore has become the first company in Romania to officially apply for the development of offshore wind energy projects in the Black Sea. The Black Sea 1 (500 MW) and Black Sea 2 (approx. 1.4 GW) projects, for which separa... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd has signed an agreement with Nordex Group for the supply of wind turbines for the onshore project Stöllsäterberget in Sweden. For the 47 MW project owned by wpd europe, Nordex will supply eight N163/5.X turbines and will provide premium service for ... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - KfW IPEX-Bank is financing the construction and operation of the northern Finnish Nuolivaara wind farm for the German project developer wpd europe GmbH and is contributing all of the debt capital as well as the necessary ancillary facilities. The wind fa... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd will soon begin construction of three photovoltaic projects in Taiwan. So far, the Bremen-based project developer and operator of wind and solar parks has implemented 38 PV projects in the country with a total capacity of 9.25 MW. With the new projec... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd, the Bremen-based project developer and operator of wind and solar farms, is adding another project to its pipeline in the Philippines. The Aklan project is an onshore wind farm with a total capacity of 75.6 MW. Triconti ECC Renewables Corporation, a... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - External rating agencies have rated the development of wpd as stable and positive since 2003. In the current report by Scope Hamburg, the Bremen-based company is also awarded the coveted A rating. The assessment of the stable positive development is base... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Together with Levanta Renewables, a Singapore-based developer of renewable energy projects in Southeast Asia, German developer wpd is planning the Kon Plong onshore wind energy project in the Vietnamese province of Kon Tum, located about 780 km southeast... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - A few days ago, wpd was able to record the surpassing of the mark of 200,000 MWh of green electricity generated in the current year in the Spanish 177 MW Torozos portfolio. This means that the four projects El Poleo (14 Siemens Gamesa G132 turbines of 3.... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd, together with Commerzbank and Norddeutsche Landesbank (NORD/LB), can announce the achievement of financial close in the Finnish project Karhunnevankangas (Karhu). This means that the financing of wpd europe's largest onshore wind project, which will... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd opens up the Greek market for onshore and offshore wind energy and solar energy. The company is active with its own companies - wpd solar Hellas and wpd Hellas onshore - and is taking up project development activities in the wind and solar sectors at... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd has concluded a supply agreement with turbine manufacturer Nordex for the Finnish onshore project Nuolivaara. The Nuolivaara wind farm is wpd's first construction project in Lapland, beyond the Arctic Circle. It will be the fourth joint project of wp... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd and its Finnish team can report an important success in one of Northern Europe’s growth markets. In the 188 MW project “Karhunnevankangas” in the western Finnish region of Österbotten the decision has been made which turbine type will be installed in... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - Poland's exciting market for renewable energies continues to gain momentum and wpd is contributing to this as a successful wind farm project developer. With wpd Polska sp. z o.o. as its national company, wpd has been operating from the Poznan location si... more...
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Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd continues to successfully position itself as a project developer in the North American market for wind and solar energy. With the conceptual design of a wind farm currently under development as a ‘hybrid system project’ combining wind energy, sol... more...
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Bremen (renewablepress) - During the last days a strong group of contractors has signed supply agreements with wpd on the 350 MW Guanyin project off the coast of Taoyuan (Taiwan). They are now ready to start the construction with planned commissioning in 2022 as soon as the r... more...
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Bremen (renewablepress) - On 29 July, wpd Polska was able to welcome high-ranking visitors to the "Jarocin Koźmin" and "Koźmin Pilot" wind farms: Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz had accepted the invitation of the Polish Wind Energy ... more...
26.08.2022 | Bremen (renewablepress) - wpd can record further success in the marketing of wind power in Poland. A Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) was concluded with ENGIE Zielona Energia Sp. z o.o., a wholly owned subsidiary of the French energy supply group ENGIE SA.
The PPA was signed bet... more...
wpd was founded in Bremen in 1996 and has become one of the leading developers and operators (IRPP) of onshore wind and solar parks in Europe. The group of companies has a total of 4,300 employees and consists of wpd GmbH (project planner and operator), wpd windmanager (commercial management and technical operation) and Deutsche Windtechnik (maintenance and technology).
wpd is active in 33 countries worldwide and has implemented projects with 2,810 wind turbines and a total output of 6,970 MW, as well as solar energy projects with an output of 70 MW. The company's own portfolio includes projects with a total capacity of 3,512 MW.
In addition to developing its own projects, the company also takes on project partnerships, commercial development, contract design, project financing and the completion and operation of wind and solar energy plants. Thanks to its many years of expertise, the company is a recognized reliable partner for power purchase agreements (PPAs).
In addition to its home market in Germany, wpd is also active in the major wind and solar markets in Europe, in North and South America, as well as in various countries in the rapidly growing Asian market. The company has built up a global project pipeline of 31,585 MW of onshore wind and 7,360 MWp of solar PV and is making a significant contribution to the global energy transition.
