Nordex SE: The Nordex Group: The N149 is the most permitted turbine in Germany in the first half of 2020

The Nordex Group: The N149 is the most permitted turbine in Germany in the first half of 2020

– Worldwide more than 1,100 units of the N149 sold totalling more than 5,100 MW to date

– At the same time, the number of sold turbines of the success model N117 in Germany alone has risen to more than 800 since its market launch

Hamburg, 26 August 2020. The Nordex Group scores points in Germany with its current N149 turbine from the Delta4000 series: The turbine type, which has already been sold 1,100 times totalling more than 5,100 MW worldwide, topped the most permitted wind turbines in Germany in the first half of 2020. At the same time, the successful N117 model, which has been tried and tested for many years, also achieved a new milestone: With a repowering order from its customer BayWa r.e. for eight N117/3600 turbines in mid-2020 the Nordex Group has sold more than 800 turbines of this type in Germany alone since the first order in 2011.

In December 2011 the Nordex Group installed the first N117 turbine in the world in the community wind farm «Stadum» in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Today there are 795 turbines of this type in operation in Germany, with a further twelve in the process of installation. At 807 turbines, this makes the N117 the best-selling Nordex turbine in Germany to date. Since the 117 rotor blade class was launched the Nordex Group has sold more than 2,130 turbines with more than 5,700 MW worldwide.

In the case of the «Immenberg» repowering project in Lower Saxony, Germany, BayWa r.e. is replacing eight S70/1500 turbines with a hub height of 65 metres in the «Uetze-Süd» wind farm near Hanover, which the Nordex Group installed in 2002. The eight new N117/3600 turbines with a hub height of 141 metres will increase the installed capacity by a factor of 2.4. Installation is due to begin at the beginning of 2021 with commissioning scheduled for the second quarter May 2021. Thanks to the high hub height and the 67 percent larger rotor diameter, at an average wind speed of 7.3 m/s an annual output of 70 GWh of clean wind electricity will be generated.

Today the success of the N117 turbines is being carried on by the Delta4000 turbines with a rotor diameter of 149 metres. Based on the data of the German Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency) and the publication of the FA Wind (2020) in its analysis of the development situation of onshore wind energy in the first half of 2020, 292 wind turbines with 30 different types were permitted in Germany in the first six months of 2020. The most frequently permitted turbine type with 46 units was the N149. For the second repowering project for a further S70/1500 turbines in «Uetze-Nord» in the ongoing building permission process BayWa r.e. is planning to use N149 turbines as well. Worldwide the Nordex Group has more than 1,100 units of the N149 sold totalling more than 5,100 MW as of today.

Siegbert Pump, Nordex Group Head of Sales for Germany: «More and more turbines in Germany are reaching an age at which repowering makes economic sense. Thanks to today’s turbine technology the yield from a wind farm can in some cases be tripled while the number of turbines can often be significantly reduced as well. In spite of their greater efficiency, nowadays our turbines – both the 117 and the 149 rotor blade class and our N163/5.X turbine – are quiet and less conspicuous thanks to their lower rotational speed. BayWa r.e is now taking advantage of these benefits in the Immenberg wind farm.»

According to the German Federal Government’s climate protection programme, renewable energies are expected to cover a total of 65 percent of the national gross electricity consumption in 2030. Repowering, the replacement of old turbines with modern turbines, is an essential prerequisite for achieving this goal. In the next few years alone, 16 GW will be phased out of the feed-in remuneration (EEG) in Germany.

The Nordex Group – a profile
The Group has installed more than 29 GW of wind energy capacity in over 40 markets and in 2019 generated revenues of EUR 3.3 billion. The company currently employs a workforce of approx. 7,900. The joint manufacturing capacity includes factories in Germany, Spain, Brazil, the United States, India, Argentina and Mexico. The product portfolio is focused on onshore turbines in the 2.4 to 5.X MW class, which are tailor-made for the market requirements in countries with limited space and regions with limited grid capacity.

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