RWE Extends Onshore Wind Portfolio After Auction Wins

In the highly competitive grid expansion area in Lower Saxony, the Evendorf wind farm with a capacity of 11.7 MW was awarded the contract by the Federal Network Agency. Another contract was awarded for an additional turbine for RWE's Krusemark repowering project in Saxony-Anhalt.

The Evendorf wind farm is located directly on the A7 motorway between Hanover and Hamburg. Three Nordex turbines with a capacity of 3.9 MW each will be installed there.

In the repowering project Krusemark, 15 old turbines will be dismantled and replaced by six Nordex turbines with a capacity of 3.3 MW each. The repowering of five of the turbines had already been awarded in the tender in June, while the sixth turbine was approved in August and was therefore able to participate in the October auction. This increases the planned installed capacity of the Krusemark wind farm to 19.8 MW.

Katja Wünschel, COO Wind Onshore & Solar PV Europe & APAC of RWE Renewables: “I am delighted that we were once again successful in a competitive market environment. With Evendorf and Krusemark we will be able to start two new projects in our home market. When complete, the two wind farms will add another 30 megawatts to our considerable German onshore portfolio.”