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ENERCON Magazine for Wind Energy 02/12 WINDBLatt ENERCON Magazine for wind energy 02/12 Sustainable Logistics Time, money and the environment are important considerations for deliveries of WEC components. Therefore, ENERCON uses the railway wherever possible. Practice At the repowering project Holßel in the county of Cuxhaven ENERCON replaces 25 old Nordex machines with 20 E-82/2.3 MW turbines. International ENERCON recently installed the first E-126 in the Netherlands. The European country has great potential for further multimegawatt-projects. 4 ENERCON News 7 ENERCON Fairs 15 ENERCON Addresses 12 17 Practice Imprint Publisher: ENERCON GmbH 11 Repowering project Borgholzhausen/North Rhine-Westphalia Dreekamp 5 D-26605 Aurich ENERCON replaces two 16-year-old E-40 turbines near Borgholzhausen in Teutoburg Forest with an Tel. +49 (0) 49 41 927 0 E-82/2.3 MW WEC. Fax +49 (0) 49 41 927 109 www.enercon.de 12 Repowering project Holßel/Lower Saxony Editorial office: Felix Rehwald In the county of Cuxhaven ENERCON replaces 25 old Nordex machines with 20 E-82/2.3 MW turbines. 8 Printed by: Beisner Druck GmbH & Co. KG, 14 Scientific proof of sustainability Buchholz/Nordheide ENERCON received certificate for life-cycle assessment. Copyright: WINDBLATT 02/12 All photos, illustrations, texts, images, graphic representations, insofar as this is not expressly stated to the contrary, are the property of ENERCON GmbH International and may not be reproduced, changed, transmitted or used otherwise without the prior written consent of Cover 16 ENERCON in Scandinavia ENERCON GmbH. First repowering project in Norway completed. Frequency: The WINDBLATT is published three 8 Sustainable Logistics at ENERCON times a year and is regularly enclosed 17 ENERCON in the Netherlands to the «new energy», magazine for Time and money are important considerations for deliveries of WEC components. But ENERCON also thinks of the environment. renewable energies, of the German First Dutch E-126 installed. WindEnergy Association. Subscribe: Phone +49 (0) 49 41 927 667 or 18 ENERCON in Southeast Europe www.enercon.de. ENERCON internal First E-53 erected on Cyprus. Cover illustration: Transport of ENERCON WEC 10 ENERCON restructures 19 ENERCON in Turkey components with the railway. Creation of Aloys Wobben Foundation secures ENERCON’s long-term future course. Mega Soma Wind Farm project completed. 2 3 Market share on the rise: easily accessible on the outskirts of the city near ENERCON fifth in the world the airport and has a good road connection to the A2 highway. In view of the European Football Last year, ENERCON increased its share of the Championship games, the A2 was recently ENERCON world market. According to the figures presented extended from the German-Polish border all the by BTM Consult, in 2011, ENERCON, Germany’s way to Poznán. leading wind energy producer, secured fifth place NEWS on the global market with a share of 7.9 %. This The new ENERCON office will also be the central is an increase of 0.7 % compared to the 2010 office for ENERCON Service Poland as well share which was 7.2 %. as being in charge of Project Management for installations in this region. All sales staff are native In 2011, Vestas was still in pole position with a speakers of Polish. GZO casts components for share of 12.9 % (2010: 14.8 %). Second in line ENERCON E-101 series was Goldwind with 9.4 % (9.5 %), followed by «ENERCON sees immense potential for wind GE Wind with 8.8 % (9.6 %) and Gamesa with energy in Poland,» says Frank Ihme, ENERCON Gusszentrum Ostfriesland (GZO) has successfully 8.2 % (6.6 %). Sales Manager for Eastern Europe. Currently, launched serial production of components for ENERCON has about 150 MW connected to ENERCON’s E-101 series. In one of the four Compared to the previous year, ENERCON also the grid in Poland. This year a number of new production sections at ENERCON’s own foundry increased its foothold in Europe reaching a share large projects are scheduled to be launched. in Georgsheil/East Frisia, stator shields for the of 26.1 % which for the first time pushes them Amongst ENERCON’s business partners are new 3 MW machine are now being produced up to first place. In 2010, the share was 24.1 %. international corporations as well as private Po- in addition to the E-82 components already in Installation of E-82 in Praia Norte in Viana do Castelo. Vestas lost some ground in 2011 with a share of lish investors. «Similar to the beginning of wind production there. 22.7 % (2010: 29.8). Gamesa is in third place energy in Germany, not only planning offices are with 13.3 % (12.9) followed by Suzlon with interested in breaking into the renewable ener- Later on casting is to be expanded to include the 9.2 % (7.2) and Siemens with 8.9 % (10.8). gies market but also a lot of private investors E-101 axle pin. Soon ENERCON wants to also want to start out with one or two machines like, include components from the new E-92 series. The E-82 was installed on top of an 83 m ground water contains a considerable amount for example, the E-53 series,» explains Frank The first E-92 machines will be installed in 2013. precast concrete tower on the parking lot of chloride. ENERCON had to make provisions Ihme. between the rotor blade and concrete tower for these particularities when determining the production buildings. Because the condi- composition of the concrete for the E-82 foun- New ENERCON branch office However, Ihme points out that the framework tions at the industrial site are fairly cramped, dation. The special concrete was provided by the opens in Poland conditions in Poland have to continue to installation was an exceptional challenge. In concrete tower factory on site. become more stable. One huge issue is the addition, production at both factories was to ENERCON has just opened a new Sales office development of the power grid. Major efforts ENERCON Portugal gets own be interrupted as little as possible during erec- The hub was hoisted on 15 May in the presence in Poland. Polish customers, project planners will have to be made in the future to bring it E-82 wind turbine tion. So ENERCON had to work out a special of the mayor of Viana do Castelo, José Maria and interested persons now have a team of four up to Western European standards. But on the installation plan for the E-82 together with the Costa. He was very pleased to see that the first available at the new branch office in Poznán, whole, Ihme is confident about the prospects ENERCON in Portugal now has its own WEC. In two plants. Special emphasis was placed on wind turbine erected in an urban area in Portugal which opened for business in April. The office is in Poland: «Opening an office in Poznan is a May, an E-82 E2/2.0 MW machine started up the aspect of work safety. was realised at Viana do Castelo. Now the city clear sign that ENERCON is optimistic about the operations atop an 85 m tower at the Praia Norte has a typical ENERCON landmark. It is impressive Polish wind market.» production site in Viana do Castelo. Now Also, a number of other issues had to be taken evidence of the wind turbine manufacturers signi- ENERCON is able to provide a portion of the into consideration for the installation work. Due to ficance as one of the largest employers in Viana Not only did ENERCON increase its market share in Germany but also in Europe and the world wind electricity required by the rotor blade and tower the proximity to the ocean, the ground water level do Costelo and the surrounding region. energy market. production plants on their own. at Praia Norte is quite high. In addition to that, the Pre-assembly of E-101 at Gabsheim Wind Farm / Rhineland-Palatinate. 4 5 ENERCON Fairs Eolica 2012 (Rome/Italy) 10th International wind energy fair 5 - 7 September 2012 www.zeroemissionrome.eu Husum WindEnergy 2012 (Husum/Germany) Leading wind energy trade fair 18 - 22 September 2012 www.husumwindenergy.com Managing Director, Hans-Dieter Kettwig in an interview with RENEXPO 2012 NDR presenter, Sarah Tacke. In (Augsburg/Germany) background, exhibit of E-92. 13th International energy fair 27 - 30 September 2012 Fergus Ewing, Scottish Minister for Energy (from the left), Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, www.renexpo.de David McAllister, and Head of UK Sales at ENERCON, Henri Joppien, at the inauguration ceremony. Hanover Fair with new E-92 – was excellent – a great gauge for ENERCON’s Bütikofer (The Greens) stopped by the ENERCON Enormous success for ENERCON continuous development programme. And the booth. A delegation from Aurich’s city council also CanWEA 2012 timing couldn’t have been better. It’s the right came out to Hanover for the event. In addition, (Toronto/Canada) Annual wind energy fair and conference The 2012 Hanover Fair was an extremely machine at the right time.» the Northern German TV station (NDR) broadcast constraints for wind turbines were eliminated, far ENERCON office in Edinburgh 14 - 17 October 2012 positive event for ENERCON. «The fair was a a live special on renewable energies from the officially inaugurated more energy could be produced in Scotland. www.canwea.ca great success for ENERCON,» says ENERCON Among the multitude of visitors to the ENERCON ENERCON stand. Managing Director Hans-Dieter Kettwig with stand were also many politicians from various ENERCON officially inaugurated its new sales and Minister-President David McAllister has energia 2012 satisfaction. The stand in pavilion 27 at the Hano- parties and parliamentary factions.
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