EANS-News: Nordex awarded 72.5-MW project in the Netherlands
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Corporate news transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer/originator is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Company Information/Order intake Subtitle: Existing wind farm to be repowered and extended / local service station planned Hamburg (euro adhoc) - Turbine manufacturer Nordex has been awarded four related contracts under which it will be revamping the "Kreekraksluis" wind farm by autumn 2013. The project has been planned by four companies, all of which have opted in favour of the Nordex N100/2500. The customers are the two Dutch utilities DELTA NV and Eneco NV as well as the private operators Winvast BV and Scheldewind BV. With an installed capacity of 72.5 MW, the project entails a total of 29 turbines. Part of the project involves repowering, i.e. dismantling and modernising, 26 older 500 kW turbines which DELTA has been operating in the Reimerswaal community since 1996. By enlarging the capacity by around 60 MW, the operators want to make a key contribution to "greener" electricity supplies with as little as possible interference with the landscape. All told, the "Kreekraksluis" wind farm is to achieve an annual yield of around 210 GWh, sufficient to provide up to 55,000 Dutch homes with clean electricity. The wind farm is being installed along the "Schelde-Rijnverbinding" canal south of Bergen op Zoom. Nordex will also build up a permanent service station at the site to manage the turbines. The purchase contracts also include premium service package for a period of 15 years. As well as this, an extension of the project for an additional three turbines of the same model is planned. Once the old turbines have been dismantled, the new Nordex systems are to be installed from April 2013. "This project is a good example of how wind power capacity can be raised without any appreciable increase in the number of turbines. This is a guiding model for other developed European markets to follow and offers great potential for the future," explains Lars Bondo Krogsgaard, Chief Customer Officer at Nordex SE. Three of the four orders are received already in December 2011. The remaining six turbines are booked as order intake in March. Further inquiry note: Ralf Peters Head of Corporate Communication Tel.: +49 (0)40 300 30 15 22 rpeters@nordex-online.com end of announcement euro adhoc -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- company: Nordex SE Langenhorner Chaussee 600 D-22419 Hamburg phone: +49 (0)40 30030-1000 FAX: +49 (0)40 30030-1101 mail: info@nordex-online.com WWW: http://www.nordex-online.com sector: Alternative energy ISIN: DE000A0D6554, DE0000A0D66L2 indexes: TecDAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share, Technology All Share, ÖkoDAX stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt language: English
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