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Market Guide – Wind Energy NRW 2014

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Inhalt

Market Guide – Wind Energy NRW 2014 3

Foreword 4

Wind Power Network NRW 6

Wind potentials in North Rhine-Westphalia 9

Political and legal boundary conditions for the expansion of wind energy in North Rhine-Westphalia 12

Facts and figures 15

Wind energy and industry 20

Offshore wind energy – market driver for North Rhine-Westphalia 31

Mini wind turbines 33

Research 34

EnergyAgency.NRW 39

Annex 40Index of companies (by categories) 40Index of companies (alphabetical) 59Calendar of regular annual events 62Further reading 63

Contents

4 Market Guide – Wind Energy NRW 2014

Dear Readers,

energy generation has a long tradition in North Rhine-Westphalia, and remains of great importance even today. This federal state is correspond -ingly referred to as Germany’s Energy Region No. 1. NRW has numerous, predominantly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working directly and indirectly for the energy industry. Many of these companies have also been successfully involved in the field of renewable energy for a good time now, and are active, in particular, in the wind energy sector. Many new, in some cases highly innovative jobs, have been created in this sector during the past fifteen years. According to a study performed by the Renewable Energy Agency in 2012 around 50,600 persons were employed in some 3,000 companies in the regenerative energy industry in NRW at that time.

There are, on the whole, therefore extremely good prospects for NRW as an industrial and energy region and for companies active in the wind energy industry. This sector thus makes a substantial contribution to the structural change necessary in the state, and to the energy turnaround. In addition, universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutions in NRW are also active – extremely successfully active – in numerous wind energy projects. They are, indeed, playing an important role in the further evolution of wind energy technology. With the companies active here in our state, and its Research & Development institutions, NRW is an important German region for wind energy, and also enjoys global significance.

A considerable number of wind energy facilities are also being constructed and efficiently operated in the state. Despite the inland location, some 2,900 systems are currently in service in NRW. Installed capacity totals around 3,337 MW, while overall wind power generated in 2012 was some 5.5 TWh.

Foreword


Wind power’s share of total electricity generation from renewable energy sources in NRW was around 40 per cent in 2011, making it the most important of the renewable energy sources. These already impressive statistics are due to rise even further in the next few years, the state govern-ment having set itself the target of increasing wind energy’s share of overall electricity supplies from the current approx. 4 to approx. 15 per cent by 2020.

The Wind Energy Market Guide NRW provides an excellent overview of wind energy facts and figures, and also of the companies, research institutions and associations active in this field in NRW. This volume also provides infor-mation on the Wind Power Network NRW and on the importance of wind energy for medium-sized enterprises in the state. It is an ideal tool for gaining acquaintance with and deepening knowledge of this topic, and as a reference work available for consultation at any time.

I wish all readers fruitful reading of the first Wind Energy NRW industry survey and congratulate EnergyAgency.NRW’s Wind Power Network on a successful publication. I am confident that the Wind Energy industry survey is destined to become an established institution in NRW and beyond.

Monika Krämer Director of windtest grevenbroich gmbh

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6 Wind Power Network NRW

Interview with Stephanus Lintker, of EnergyAgency.NRW

Stephanus Lintker is the head of Wind Power Network NRW. In this interview, he talks about the activities and aims of this EnergyAgency.NRW-managed network and also discusses specific plans for the future, by means of which the wind-networker intends to become even better established.

and our aim is to provide tangible opportunities for inter-change. We organise annual conferences, specialist events and trips by delegations. We bring the players together as partners, and guide them into discussions in which we, as an institution, are also involved. We also play an important enabling role by bringing the state’s political decision makers into contact with the relevant companies at such events. We organise visits to techni-cal fairs and exhibitions, for example, and also partici-pate in NRW climate minister Johannes Remmel’s future-energy tour. Our target is to act as a communications channel for the industry, creating communications links. We also maintain a strong Internet presence for this pur-pose, and this provides an important information plat-form for the industry.

How do you see the network’s role as an impartial institution if it is itself involved in the discussion?

As we see it, our function is to identify relevant topics, ask questions, provide ideas and to stimulate and chair discussions. The target is to concentrate interests in or-der to support and further innovation. We maintain a dia-logue with companies and institutions specifically for this purpose. Our intention here is to locate good ideas and promising projects, and link them to suitable sources of

Herr Lintker, you are head of the Wind Power Network. What is the network’s function, and what are its aims?

Our aim at Wind Power Network is to bring the repre-sentatives of the wind energy industry in NRW to-gether and to publicise the results of their co-opera-tion. There are many activities on the subject of wind energy in NRW – the market, the industry, the tech-nology, and research – we focus on all sectors, and work at bringing them closer together. One important criterion is the following:As a network managed by EnergyAgency.NRW, we think and act entirely impartially. We are neither an industry association nor an economic promotion agency. We are concerned with active interchange and location marketing for the North Rhine-West-phalian wind industry. Our network includes around 800 individuals and more than 300 companies, institutions and research institutes.

How do you bring these players together and how do you organise the network’s activities?

One focus of our current work is the conception and implementation of events. We network via activities,

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support. The important thing is connecting industry and research with appropriate sources of finance. Our func-tion is to build bridges that will facilitate progress in the industry and for wind energy as a whole.

You also have your own topics which you wish to publicise. What are they?

Our range of topics is extremely broad. We have, on the one hand, the technology side, where, for instance, we are monitoring and providing information on the develop-ment of ever larger wind energy installations, in the fields of tower and gearbox construction, inter alia, and the development of mini wind energy facilities. We also see ourselves as a channel of communication on questions concerning repowering and wind energy at wooded sites. We focus on the development of wind energy locations in NRW and on market trends. Another important target that we support is the expansion of specific applied wind energy research at the universities. We are also involved, of course, in communications and consulting activities, which play an extremely important role in the wind field. Here, we work very closely with EnergyDialogue.NRW. The central emphasis in this project, which is also man-aged by EnergyAgency.NRW, is on dialogue, information and mediation, particularly in case of conflicts, which can

arise, for instance, at the planning stage of wind en-ergy projects. EnergyDialogue.NRW is aimed, above all, at municipalities and citizens.

What are the network’s plans for the future? Where do we go from here?

We aim to position the various partners’ capabilities even more visibly in the network organisation. On the one hand, we have already expanded our technical capabilities and we intend, on the other hand, to set up a steering group. We are currently in the process of selecting and approaching potential members. This steering group will meet at regular intervals and act as a “knowledge pool”, provide internal structure, and assure even clearer orientation in the elaboration of these topics. The network will thus then possess a clear mandate to initiate projects and the discussion of topics, to which it can refer when necessary.

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The Wind Power Network NRW was set up in 2009 by the state government of NRW in order to focus the diverse activities, business expertise and technologi-cal potential for innovation of the state’s wind energy sector, and interlinks more than 800 players throughout NRW. These include component and facility manufacturers, system operators, service providers, project organisers, planners, engineers, and representatives of public administrations and approval authorities.

The aim of the network’s activities is that of furthering the expansion of the use of wind energy in North Rhine-Westphalia as a primary state government priority. Wind power is to meet around 15 per cent of total electricity consumption in NRW by the end of this decade. The use of wind energy must therefore be expanded significantly; all potentials for innovation and site utilisation must therefore be exploited. The means employed will include the networking of industry, politics, science and re-search, in order to further develop the already high capa-bilities of NRW’s wind energy technology, to intensify re-powering activities and the construction of new facilities in cultivated woodlands and along infrastructural routes.

The Wind Power Network NRW is one of eight energy net-works active throughout the state and operated under EnergyAgency.NRW’s joint “EnergyRegion.NRW” banner. The topics tackled and the Wind Power Network’s sub-ject-matter orientation are co-ordinated by Energy-Agency.NRW with support from representatives of indus-try and research, and also from the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conserva-tion and Consumer Protection, the Ministry for Economic

Affairs, Energy, Construction, Housing and Transport and the Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Tech-nology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

The network’s allotted task is that of bringing the rele-vant regional players together and reinforcing their ca-pabilities. This also includes strategic support for enter-prises in the further evolution of system hardware, with the aim of improving the efficiency and cost-effective-ness of wind turbines and raising their availability levels. As a generator of ideas for future leitmotifs in the wind energy sector, the network is also intended to enhance public acceptance of wind energy, intensify cooperation both within Germany and internationally, and boost the international presence of NRW’s wind energy industry.

The Wind Power Network provides the industry with a platform on which experts and specialists can interact on an interdisciplinary, topic-orientated, solution-tar-geted basis. Numerous projects with these aims have al-ready been initiated, including the WindForum NRW, specialist conferences, expert discussion forums and also local information events/workshops on the topics of “Repowering” and “Wind in the Woods”. The Wind Power Network NRW’s annual conference, “Wind-Updates.NRW”, focuses in particular on the subject of innovation and provides an up-to-date overview of recent develop-ments in political boundary conditions, in planning and in system technology.

Other options available include opportunities for presen-tations by wind energy companies in the context of the annual conference, and entries in the Wind Energy Market Guide NRW.

Wind Power Network NRW


tive exploitation of all potentials, North Rhine-Westphalia could, via the expanded use of wind energy alone, gene-rate twice as much electricity as is currently needed by private households in the state.

The extensive Database EnergyAtlas.NRW provides much useful information for wind energy planning, and contains, in the form of outline maps, all the data obtai-ned for the first time for analysis of wind energy potenti-als. This interactive cartographic material is useful, it is true, only for initial information purposes, and cannot re-place an on-the-spot appraisal of specific sites, but does nonetheless provide insights on existing sites for wind energy installations and site potentials, such as local average wind velocity.

Repowering – “New for old”The ambitious targets set necessarily entail great ef-forts and the pursuit of new routes. One good option is so-called repowering, in which existing installations are replaced by quieter and higher-output new ones. The be-nefits: modern wind turbines not only use the available wind more efficiently, and thus operate more cost-effec-tively, they also generate electricity with greater cons-tancy, and can be better integrated into the transmis-sion grid. Repowering makes it possible to “tidy up” the landscape by reducing the number and concentration of installations needed. Modern turbines also operate at si-gnificantly lower speeds than the rapidly rotating older machines, and thus have a lower visual impact. Calcula-tions by Deutsche WindGuard GmbH indicate that con-sistent repowering using 3.5 MW class turbines would permit achievement of the state government’s expan-sion target with only around the same number (some 3,000) of turbines as up to now.

Wind potentials in North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany’s most important energy state. Despite being a densely populated and highly industrialised landlocked state, NRW is nonethe-less a good location for wind energy. According to infor-mation from the Renewable Energy Agency, North Rhine-Westphalia takes fifth place, just behind the coastal state of Schleswig-Holstein, in the national rankings for installed wind energy capacity. The NRW state government now intends to increase the percent-age of electricity generated from wind energy from its present approx. 4 to 15 per cent by the year 2020.

With its plains and uplands, this region between the riv-ers Rhine and Weser provides numerous sites suitable for the expansion of wind energy, as is documented by the “Wind Potentials Study NRW”, which was drafted in 2012 by the NRW State Environment Agency (LANUV) on behalf of the state government. Unlike the urban and industrial districts of the Ruhr Regional Alliance and the Düsseldorf governmental district, the heavily wooded uplands, located predominantly in the Arnsberg and Cologne governmental districts, provide, in particular, high wind energy potentials.

Another positive factor is useful wind velocities: 95 per cent of sites in NRW have, at heights of 135 m above ground level, average wind velocities of over 6 to 7 m per second (m/s). Locations in the Eifel region and the sou-thern Weser Uplands achieve mean wind velocities of above 7 m/s (1.2 per cent).

The potentials study performed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy Systems Techno-logy (WES) for the German Wind Energy Association (BWE), comes to the conclusion that, assuming exhaus-

Planning regionPotential net power generation (TWh/a)

Surface area (ha)Number of wind turbines(3 MW facility)

Münster 10,4 14.700 1.470

Detmold 13,6 21.800 1.830

Arnsberg 19,5 33.500 2.720

Regionalverband Ruhr 3,4 4.400 480

Düsseldorf 5,3 8.100 740

Köln 19,1 30.400 2.540

Results of calculation of potentials (rounded off) for the guideline NRW scenario in the planning regions, classified by governmental districts

Source: Renewable Energy Potentials Study NRW, Part 1 – Wind Energy, LANUV Technical Report 40, Tab. 25, p. 96

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The state government is therefore backing repowering for its expansion of wind energy, and has initiated a re-powering initiative to actively assist and support the re-powering process, catalogue any problems, and evolve conceptual solutions. An extensive analysis and survey of all municipalities in NRW performed by the IWR provi-des important bases for this.

The year 2013 witnessed the first larger number of repo-wering projects, but the opportunity of replacing old systems with new ones has, on the whole, been taken up only slowly up to now. The reasons for this are diverse: many installations have, on the one hand, not yet reached their originally projected service life of twenty years. Repowering at the same location also raises, on the other hand, questions of biodiversity and urban and landscape impact, which must now be answered anew. In very many cases, repowering projects necessitate a new planning procedure involving the re-examination of cost-efficiency and of municipal boundary conditions.The concept of “new for old” is a central element of the energy turnaround. Some 800 existing kilowatt-class installations, with a total output of just on 300 MW, are currently located outside concentration zones. The glo-bal expansion of wind power holds great potentials as an engine of innovation for NRW’s wind industry, driving and accelerating technological development. In a ba-lance drawn by the BWE’s “Wind Energy in Germany 2013” industry report, the rated output of wind energy facilities installed onshore has risen significantly during the past ten years. Output has increased, for example, from an average of 1.39 to 2.39 MW; rotors have grown in diameter from 65.71 to 86.6 m, and spinner height

from 78.75 to 110.99 m. System manufacturers are penetrating new markets with wind energy facilities specially tailored to sites with particularly high or only moderate wind levels.

Technology developments promote the expansionIn addition, the production of wind energy installations involves a high level of vertical integration. Engineering technology from NRW has become firmly established on the world market as a result of the fact that a number of manufacturers pursue a so-called “OEM” (Original Equipment Manufacturer) strategy and purchase com-ponents such as turbine base frames, gearboxes and rotor blades from subsuppliers. Many manufacturers of gearboxes, bearings, generators, transformers, coup-lings and brakes, and also of control and sensor sys-tems, are long established medium-sized NRW compa-nies. Wind turbine towers, rotor blades and machine housings are still other components, on the further evo-lution of which NRW wind energy companies are working with great intensity, with the aim of increasing system robustness and efficiency, lowering the weight of the overall nacelle, and matching system outputs to grid requirements.

In power transmission systems, in particular, companies in NRW offer high capability levels which facilitate tech-nological adaptation to conditions at sites in densely populated onshore areas. A broad range of products and services, extending from separate gearbox concepts, gearboxes with low-speed generators and up to and in-cluding gearless concepts, is available in the multi-MW sector. Hybrid drive arrangements, in which the genera-


tor and gearbox are directly linked to one another, are also used both onshore and offshore.

Compability of wind energy and natureFurther developments in system engineering are also making it possible to exploit NRW’s extensive wooded areas for generation of wind energy. The new machine types developed in the course of technological evolution are also capable of using the low-turbulence zones above the treetops, and thus mean that wooded areas not of special ecological significance, i.e., not located in conservation zones, can now also be used for exploita-tion of wind energy.

All this is, of course, taking place with special attention devoted to the biodiversity of NRW’’s sensitive natural environment. In addition to the “Wind in the Woods” guideline, the NRW State Environment Agency and the Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agricul-ture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection have also drafted a guideline for implementation of bio-diversity and habitat protection in the planning and approval of wind energy installations in the state of NRW in 2013. This is intended to standardise administrative procedures throughout NRW and provide all those in-volved in planning with legally substantiated bases for the necessary assessments.

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Political and legal boundary conditions for the expansion of wind energy in North Rhine-Westphalia

2050. Wind energy is to supply the decisive contribu-tions to achieving these targets.

Energy policy in North Rhine-WestphaliaThis is where NRW’s climate protection strategy comes into play. The largest federal state by population and, in its central regions, the most densely populated, is also the Federal Republic’s largest “energy state”, account-ing for around one third of the country’s energy produc-tion. The state government intends to increase wind en-ergy’s share of power supply from its present 4 to 15 per cent by the year 2020. The acceleration of the en-ergy turnaround is linked to the target of cutting green-house gas emissions by not less than 25 per cent by 2020, and by not less than 80 per cent by 2050, using total emissions for 1990 as the baseline year in both cases.

The Wind Energy DecreeThe state government enacted a new decree for the planning and approval of wind energy installations (the “Wind Energy Decree”) in July 2011, in order to acceler-ate the expansion of wind energy in NRW. This governs the designation of sites for wind energy in regional and land-use planning in more detail, and includes recom-

Two degrees at most – this is the international climate policy target of restricting global warming to less than two degrees, referring to the level prior to the start of industrialisation. It means, taking present-day emis-sions as the basis, that the burden of greenhouse gases must be cut by 50 per cent, extrapolated to all the na-tions of the world, and by no less than 80 to 95 per cent in the industrialised countries.

European and German climate protection targetsThe European Union supports this target, and aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2020. Energy efficiency is to be raised by 20 per cent in the same period, and the percentage share of re-newable energies in total energy consumption ex-pand ed by 20 per cent. According to the EU’s 2009 climate guideline, one fifth of Europe’s energy needs are to be met from renewable sources by 2020. A binding renewable energy target for German climate protection policy derives from this: 18 per cent of the country’s gross final energy consumption must be met from regenerable sources by the same year. To achieve this, renewable energy’s share of total power consump-tion must increase to not less than 35 per cent by 2020. This figure is to increase to not less than 80 per cent by

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mendations for the improvement of boundary condi-tions for repowering and for the re-examination of height restrictions. It also provides orientation concern-ing safety distances between wind energy installations and residential buildings, and concerning requirements for calculation of noise pollution and biodiversity. The Wind Energy Decree, firmly embedded in the state’s cli-mate protection strategy, thus aims at achieving greater transparency of planning. It also specifies in more detail the range of advisory services to be provided to citizens by the municipalities, and recommends as indispensa-ble the “inclusion” of citizens via citizens’ wind farms.

The State Development PlanThe new Wind Energy Decree came into existence via intensive and constructive dialogue between numerous authorities, associations and organisations. It provides the framework for the wind energy section of the new State Development Plan now being drafted, which is intended to assure planning certainty for wind energy investors and users for the coming years up to around 2030. It is to be stipulated that renewable energy sources are to be used with priority for energy supplies. The state government expects the governmental dis-tricts not to be satisfied simply with the fulfilment of

minimum requirements, but also to show a much greater commitment. Around two per cent of the sur-face area of the state is thus to be made available for the use of wind energy.

One binding target is that spoil heaps and landfills, in particular, are to be used as sites for wind energy facili-ties; only those considered tourist attractions may be excepted from this provision. Equally indispensable is the stipulation that adequate sites, proportional to the respective regional potential, are to be designated for the use of wind energy. In this future-orientated plan, regional and land-use planning are required to support all repowering initiatives intended to replace older systems with new, higher-output ones. The overall aim here is that of leaving the number of wind energy instal-lations in North Rhine-Westphalia more or less un-changed compared to 2013, despite significant in-creases in power generation.

An example: The Arnsberg Regional PlanThe Arnsberg governmental district is the first of the five governmental districts in NRW to start the drafting of a regional plan for the coming years, in order to implement the state government’s targets. This plan

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specifies the regional planning targets for the develop-ment of the region and for all regionally significant plan-ning and projects in the planning territory envisaged by the State Development Plan.

A separate “Energy” subsection is currently being evolved. Content guidelines which form the basis for planning and for intensive dialogue with the regional players have been developed by way of preparation and support for the drafting work. These set out basic legal structures for the designation of the 18,000 hectares of land envisaged for utilisation of wind energy in Arnsberg in the State Development Plan. They also govern re-powering activities even outside the designated priority areas and the use of wind energy in wooded areas.

The recommendation in these guidelines for inter-municipal cooperation is groundbreaking, in view of the fact that the space requirements of modern wind farms may in some cases exceed the site space available in certain municipalities. This recommendation is particu-larly important with respect to so-called “enshadow-ment effects”. Where the concentration zones of vari-ous municipalities are adjacent, these may impair the utilisability of the particular zone, and thus reduce the overall potential.

The Arnsberg initiative provides a good example of how the targets specified in the State Development Plan can be implemented in regional planning.

GuidelinesThe new Wind Energy Directive is given more detailed substance in accompanying guidelines. There will con-tinue to be no use of wind energy in nature reserves and in areas of significance for the conservation of nature, but the “Wind in the Woods” guideline nonetheless opens up wooded areas for planning of wind energy uti-lisation again. This guide examines the technical, for-estry management and planning boundary conditions

which may be applicable for the designation of new con-centration zones for wind energy installations in woods – at locations not excluded by ecologically valuable woodlands, and locations already impaired by hurricane damage, such as the so-called “Kyrill” sites.

The new “Implementation of biodiversity and habitat protection in the planning and approval of wind energy installations” guideline supportingly specifies questions relevant to the conservation of nature for all sites usea-ble for the generation of wind power. The content of the guideline focuses on the specific effects resulting from the operation of wind energy facilities. The methodol-ogy for the study of species sensitive to wind energy in-stallations, and the way in which such species are to be taken into account in the mandatory assessments, are discussed. The procedures for both the Biodiversity Im-pact Assessment (BIA) and the FFH (Flora, Fauna, Habi-tat) Impact Assessment are depicted in detail. The rele-vant interaction of regional planning, municipal land-use planning and approval procedures is also outlined. The intention here is to standardise administrative proce-dures, impose uniform provisions throughout the state, and assure adherence to European nature conservation legislation.

These two guidelines are intended to eliminate the legal uncertainty prevailing up to now in planning for the con-struction of wind energy facilities, and as a further con-tribution to accelerating the energy turnaround in North Rhine-Westphalia – in harmony with the conservation of nature. The state government also publishes informa-tion material on specific topics which, on the one hand, pursues the overall strategy of the expansion of the use of renewable energy sources and, on the other hand, also takes account of the justified interests of the envi-ronment, industry and the population, in order to pro-vide recommendations for wind-farm project planners, investors, operators, and conservation activists.

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Facts and figures

Dr. Allnoch, how has wind energy evolved up to now in North Rhine-Westphalia?NRW has been involved in wind energy from the very start, and I myself have experienced its development since 1982. In the late 80s, there was, for example, WISTRA, a pioneering project that was extremely in-novative for a landlocked state at that time. Industry in NRW, and the subsupplier industry, in particular, very quickly adjusted to wind energy as a new mar-ket. Mechanical and electrical engineering in the state both benefited from rapid expansion, for exam-ple. There are also good prospects for the subsup-plier industry when the offshore potentials now opening up are examined.

How can this development be accelerated?I have been involved with the renewable energy sources for a very long time, and I was concerned

even at an early stage to regard and present wind energy and the other regenerable technologies as an important future branch of industry, a “green” industry, so to speak. To achieve this, it is important that not only the aspirations and targets of climate protection should dominate, but rather that the evolution of the industry and the entire related structure be taken into account and put into focus. Only then will a young industry be able to develop healthily. Regenerative energy and the economic aspects must be viewed together, and as an “all-in” package.

Industry and its overall structure – what does this mean, in your view?Four “modules” are of decisive importance for the re-generative energy industry. Energy and environmental or climate protection are one area. Another important element is industry, or rather manufacturing industry,

Interview with Dr. Norbert Allnoch, of the IWR Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry

Dr. Norbert Allnoch is the founder and head of the IWR Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Münster. In this interview, he talks about the situation and evolution of wind energy in NRW, and explains why the holistically conceived development perspective is so important for the industry.

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with the topics, therefore, of industrial production, loca-tion and structure. Science and research, plus initial and further training, are other essential factors. A young in-dustry such as the regenerable energy sector and wind energy, in particular, can only be decisively nurtured, and enabled to flourish even against international competi-tion, provided all these modules mesh with one another.

How do you view repowering?Repowering will certainly generate new impulses, and it is extremely important to support this. Repowering will only really become topical in 2014 or 2015. The NRW state government’s repowering initiative is being started even now, and thus at an early stage, which is exem-plary. The municipalities need a long lead time to initiate corresponding projects. The economic policy effects of repowering in NRW should not be overstated, however, since the wind industry is, in particular, successfully active internationally.

So what should be done? How can the industry be furthered in NRW?We need to evolve holistic concepts which aim at strengthening the structure and the value chain here at home. The target must be to enhance the region’s

attractiveness as a location by means of system-atic infrastructural provisions and competence centres. NRW already plays an important role in the wind industry, as far as know-how and devel-opment are concerned. We in NRW are good at developing new and innovative technologies. But then comes the leap from the pioneering phase on a national market to international mar-ket maturity – and that’s where the difficulties lie. The economic policy of other countries, such as China, for example, often succeeds better here. The core question is: What boundary conditions are necessary to enable medium-sized enter-prises from NRW to graduate to being interna-tional players.

The key element is that not only climate policy, but also economic and structural policy must be shaped in such a way that young industries have a chance of success on the global market. We could, without doubt, also achieve our climate protection targets by having the necessary wind turbines built in other countries. But we don’t want that. As an industrialised nation, we want to play an important role. The potentials exist, and we now need to further the trend, evolve new concepts for them, and implement them without undue delay.

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The international and European viewWind energy is in demand around the world: according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), global installed wind energy output was around 282,000 MW at the end of 2012. That year alone witnessed new capacity of some 45,000 MW, a significant increase over the pre-ceding year. At international level, Germany held third place, behind China and the USA. The greatest growth (13,200 MW of output) was in China. This country, with a total installed capacity of more than 75,000 MW, is ahead of the USA, where an additional 13,124 MW of ca-pacity was created during the same period, thus bringing its total installed capacity to around 60,000 MW of wind energy.

Among the nations of Europe, Germany occupies first ranking in terms of total installed onshore wind energy capacity. Germany also had the highest rate of new con-struction in Europe in 2013, with 3,238 new MW installed, ahead of the United Kingdom (1,883 MW), Poland (894 MW) and Sweden (724 MW).

GermanyWind energy will play a central role in the future energy mix, and remain the predominant renewable energy source in the power sector. In its Orientation Scenario A, the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Con-servation and Nuclear Safety forecasts growth in installed generation capacity of onshore wind energy of 39 GW in 2020, compared to 34 GW in 2013. According to the German Wind Energy Association, total installed wind energy capacity in Germany increased more than fivefold from 2000 to 2013, from 6,095 MW in 2000 to a current 33,730 MW. Throughout Germany, 1,202 wind energy fa-cilities with an output totalling 3,238.41 MW were installed in the context of new construction, repowering and off-shore projects in 2013. The country thus had 23,748 oper-ational wind energy installations at the end of that year.

At 7.3 of total gross electricity generation, wind energy bears the lion’s share of energy recovery from renewable energy sources, followed by biomass (6.6 %), photovol-taics (4.6 %) and hydropower (3.3 %).

China 26.8%

USA21.2%

Germany11.1%

Spain8.1%

India6.5%

United Kingdom3.0%

Italy2.9%

France2.5%

Canada2.2%

Portugal1.6%

Other countries14.1%

Total world installed

capacity:282,482

MW

Flowing + stored water3.3%

Wind power7.3%

Photovoltaics4.6%

Biomass 6.6%

Other renewable energy sources 0.2%

Natural gas11.3%

Hard coal19.1%

Lignite25.7%

Other energy sources

5.9%

Nuclear energy 16.0%

Renewableenergy sources

22.0%

Source: EWEA Source: DESTATIS

Percentages of installed wind energy capacity in 2012 (MW)

Gross electricity generation 2011 in Germany by energy sources

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5,047 3,204

1,039 858

993 675

973 754

2,303 1,357

167 100

533 391

1,120 652

4,048 2,501

7,646 5,490

33,731 23,645

151 78

2,339 1,612

3,397 2,929

55 59

3,415 2,984

Schleswig-Holstein

Hamburg

Bremen

North Rhine-Westphalia

Germany

Saxony-Anhalt

Brandenburg

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Saxony

Thuringia

Hesse

Rhineland- Palatinate

Saarland

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Lower Saxony

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Berlin

5,047 3,204

1,039 858

993 675

973 754

2,303 1,357

167 100

533 391

1,120 652

4,048 2,501

7,646 5,490

33,731 23,645

151 78

2,339 1,612

3,397 2,929

55 59

3,415 2,984

Schleswig-Holstein

Hamburg

Bremen


Germany

Saxony-Anhalt

Brandenburg


Saxony

Thuringia

Hesse

Rhineland- Palatinate

Saarland

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Lower Saxony

2 1

Berlin

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Source: BWE 2013

Installed wind energy capacity in MW and number of installations, 2012

■ Installed capacity (in MW)

■ Number of installations33,731 23,645

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2,2262,2262,392 2,557 2,677

2,8312,831 2,928 3,0703,1823,182


Cumulative wind energy capacity (in MW) for NRW

Source: BWE 2013

Experts forecast an approximately six-fold increase in the generation of electricity from renewable energy sources between 2000 and 2020. While some 37 tera-watt hours (TWh) of power were generated from renewa-ble energy sources in 2007, current computations pre-dict a rise to just over 230 TWh in 2020. Wind energy is considered to have the greatest future development po-tential, with photovoltaics and biomass facilities enjoying a comparatively slight but nonetheless steady rate of increase across these years.

North Rhine-WestphaliaInstalled wind energy capacity approximately quintupled in Germany’s largest energy state, North Rhine- Westphalia, between 2000 and 2013: from 643 MW in 2000 to 3,414.67 MW in 2013.

At the same time the rate of increase processed analogic ally to the all-German wind energy expansion. It will be necessary to quadruple wind energy’s current share of overall power supplies by means of designation

of new sites and by means of repowering projects if the renewable energy expansion targets are to be achieved. In 2020, wind energy installations in North Rhine- Westphalia would be required to provide a net power output of 20.7 terawatt hours (TWh) annually. According to calculations by the NRW State Environment Agency, up to 71 terawatt hours would even be potentially achiev-able under the existing boundary conditions.

Comparative assessment of the German federal states North Rhine-Westphalia is one of the leading federal states in the field of onshore wind energy, along with Lower Saxony, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein. NRW, with an installed capacity of 3414.67 MW in 2013, thus accounts for around 10.1 per cent of total German installed capacity. Despite the state’s inland location, the use of wind energy holds great economic potentials in North Rhine-Westphalia, and is a central strategic element in the energy turn-around.

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Wind energy and industry

Interview with Dr.-Ing. Ralf G. Wittor, of Eickhoff Antriebstechnik GmbH

Dr.-Ing. Ralf G. Wittor is CEO of Eickhoff Antriebstechnik GmbH. This Bochum-based company is part of the Eickhoff group, and specialises in the production of industrial and wind energy gear-boxes and gearing systems. In our interview, Wittor talks about North Rhine-Westphalia as a wind energy state and the industry’s prospects.

Herr Dr. Wittor, what makes North Rhine- West phalia a particular wind energy state?

I’ll have to answer your question in two parts. As far as power generation from wind energy is concerned, North Rhine-Westphalia is not in the lead. NRW is an important subsupplier for the construction of wind en-ergy installations, however, particularly where gearing systems are concerned. Leading companies develop and produce the technology and the hardware for these systems in our state, so it’s true to say that NRW is, in any case, an important wind energy state.

Why is NRW so important for wind energy in precisely the field of gearing systems?

Gearing systems and gearboxes are needed in many mechanical systems, and wind turbines need them at several points, for rotor-blade adjustment, for exam-ple, for rotation of the tower, and also to convert high wind forces to smaller forces which the generators can cope with. Gears are a form of torque converter.

NRW has industries that possess many years of experi-ence with gearing systems, in the field of mining, like our company, for example, or also in general mechanical engineering. North Rhine-Westphalia’s gearing system industry has tradition and know-how, and is the market leader in this segment. The makers of wind power sys-tems realised at an early stage that they needed heavy-duty gearboxes and turned for them to the experienced companies in NRW, from whom they initially obtained standard gearbox systems. The need for specialised designs soon became apparent, and that, in short, is how gearing engineering for wind turbines has evolved in NRW.

What potentials do you see for wind energy in NRW, in other words, the potentials for the onshore market?

What bothers me is that wind energy is perceived at pre-sent primarily as an offshore market, probably because that’s where the focus of media interest lies. The off-shore hype has not stopped yet. But much more is actu-ally happening on shore. My opinion is that there are still

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important challenges for onshore installations if they are to make a significant contribution to the energy turn-around. NRW can also do even more here. I find the ideas now being discussed good. Sites where there are already infrastructural concentrations, such as main traffic routes, can be used, for example. Another impor-tant topic for NRW is wind power above woods, using installations that project well beyond the treetops. The new systems have higher towers and larger rotors, which means that the new generations of wind turbines can make reality of these ideas.

What technical developments are coming up in the wind industry?

The decisive driver of evolution for these systems are the rotor blades, they are getting longer and longer. That makes it possible to generate ever larger torques, but these are not simply converted into greater output, but instead, wherever possible, into a more constant power yield. The machines must be able to generate more elec-tricity even at lower wind velocities. This is an extremely

important development in onshore systems. So larger machines with longer rotor blades, but that also means significantly greater torques. All subsuppliers, including the producers of genera-tors, converters and towers, and we gear makers in NRW as well, must prepare for this. We must modi fy and further develop our products corres-pondingly. This is one of the central technical questions at the moment.

How international is NRW’s wind industry?

That’s an easy question: it operates globally. The makers of large components have to orientate themselves around the international market, since neither NRW nor even Germany as a whole is the decisive market for the installation of wind energy systems. As a subsupplier based in NRW, I myself also need to know precisely how the wind market is developing internationally, and how I should pre-pare my organisation.

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Structural change in NRWNorth Rhine-Westphalia is, from an economic viewpoint, a giant: if it were an independent country it would hold 18th place in the global ranking of all national economies, thanks to its gross domestic product (GDP) of around 582 billion euros. That is only one place behind the Netherlands, and ahead of Turkey. NRW contributes no less than 22 per cent to the domestic product of the Federal Republic of Germany, and a whole 4.5 per cent to that of Europe.

“Structural change now seems to be the norm in North Rhine-Westphalia”, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily newspaper has commented. And the state has learned to nurture change carefully: as the FAZ notes, NRW has a good number of major companies, but still more “stars” in its provinces. These include a large num-ber of “hidden champions”, i.e., companies who are global market leaders in their niches, but nonetheless remain completely unknown to most consumers. Again and again, companies in North Rhine-Westphalia have

adapted impressively to technological change and in recent decades have made the state one of the world’s most important industrial regions. Most medium-sized enterprises base the further development of their prod-ucts on their many years of experience and expertise in their market segment. In many cases, their technical knowledge and production know-how can be traced back to the supposedly “old” technologies of coal and steel production.

In North Rhine-Westphalia, wind energy is both a key technology and a driver of exports. Companies which have mastered structural change and entered the wind energy sector, adapting their specific products and ser-vices to global market needs, can be found in all indus-tries: chemicals, mechanical and plant engineering, structural steel, mining, logistics, banking and insur-ance. They all supply essential and, in some cases, highly specialised, products for the wind industry, as the following examples, from a large range of similar compa-nies, illustrate:


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ABB AG, Bad HonnefEnergy generation routes are changing, but trans-formers will always be thereUsing a century of experience gained, inter alia, in con-ventional power plant engineering, the around 360 em-ployees at ABB’s Bad Honnef plant produce transformers for use in offshore wind farms, among other applications. Every new transformer is a “one-off”, and is tailored using ultra-modern technology precisely to the customer’s re-quirements and the needs of the specific application. The plant’s product range also includes phase modifiers for active load flow management. This balances out the ef-fects caused by differing rates of feed-in, making it possi-ble to transmit electricity efficiently across great dis-tances. The Bad Honnef plant can produce high-quality, technically complex products in relatively short times.

These advanced high-tech solutions are ABB’s important contribution to the success of the energy turnaround.ABB is a leading technology group in energy and automa-tion systems. Its range includes energy-engineering products and systems, low-voltage products, process automation equipment, industrial automation and drive systems. The company employs around 145,000 persons in some 100 countries. In Germany, where it has approx. 10,000 employees, ABB achieved sales of 3.57 billion euros in 2012.

Dörken MKS-Systeme GmbH & Co. KG, HerdeckeEnvironmental protection in practice – from cars to wind energyAs thin and durable as possible: high-performance corro-sion protection has to stand up to ultra-high exposure and highly complex requirements. It is an indispensable element in wind energy engineering, to protect rotor blades, for example. Dörken has been developing and producing such Mikroschicht-Korrosionsschutz-Systeme (MKS) for more than thirty years; they are used wherever there is a need to protect components against corrosion. From the very start, the company has been careful to eliminate heavy metals harmful for health and the envi-ronment, such as chromium, lead and cadmium, from its production processes.

Its environmentally friendly technological approach ena-bled it to score in the automotive industry in 2007, with the introduction of a Europe-wide ban on coatings con-taining chromium(VI). The company is now also a popular partner for the wind industry. Thanks to its extremely efficient surface protection products and their environ-mentally safe production routes, Dörken MKS has also benefited from the growth in wind energy, and continues to make an important contribution to its expansion.


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Gebr. Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei GmbH, BochumFrom the depths of the earth up into the windFrom classical mining to high-tech industry: the history of the Eickhoff group began more than 140 years ago with the establishment of a foundry and a factory making machinery for coal mining in the very heart of the Ruhr. These roots continue to shape the now global activities of this medium-sized, family-managed, traditional com-pany even today. The Eickhoff Antriebstechnik GmbH subsidiary has been producing gearing systems for wind energy installations since 1990. This gearbox maker, with its great level of vertical integration, specialised metal-lurgical know-how from its foundry, combined with the manufacturing capabilities gained from building gear-boxes for the mining industry, is now one of the world market’s leading suppliers.

In addition to its many years of experience in plant and system engineering, the company places its faith in its broad range of products and services: From design closely coordinated with the customer, and high-speed prototyping, complete with special high-performance tests, up to and including flexible series production in co-ordination with the customer. Before delivery, every gearbox is submitted on the inspection stand to the pro-gramme of testing agreed with the customer, including documentation of its vibration performance. Business in gearing systems for wind energy facilities has increased greatly in recent years, and is now the group’s largest source of sales.

August Friedberg GmbH, GelsenkirchenHorse shoe nails with a threadUnder its “Get a Grip” motto, the family-managed August Friedberg company, with its long tradition, specialises in the development and production of high-quality joining and fastening elements. What began more than 125 years ago with the production of hors shoe nails and screws for the mining industry in the central Ruhr has evolved, via continuous development stretching across several generations, into a diversified manufacturing company. Its present-day products are used around the globe in steel and civil engineering, in the automotive in-dustry, and in mechanical and plant engineering.

The company is also a leading subsupplier to the wind in-dustry, furnishing know-how that secures gigantic mega-watt-range installations against the enormous forces of nature: from the foundation fixings, via the nacelle and spinner fastenings, up to and including the tower and ro-tor blade fixings, numerous Friedberg products can now-adays be found in many of the wind energy installations operating around the globe. The company’s threaded joining elements are tailored to the special requirements of the application, developed in close cooperation with the user, and manufactured using highly reliable produc-tion methods. The concluding quality inspections assure high levels of safety and dependability in use.


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Gothaer Versicherungsbank VVAG, CologneFrom fire to windThe Gothaer was founded in 1820, and is one of Germa-ny’s longest established insurance companies. Having started in fire insurance, the group is now one of the Federal Republic’s ten largest property insurers, and underwrites some 13,000 wind energy facilities around the world. The “Gothaer” has supported the rapid ex-pansion of renewable energy in Germany intensively from the very start, and has evolved special insurance solutions for wind energy installations. This German, French, Austrian and Belgian market leader nowadays provides insurance cover for facilities worth multi-billion euro amounts, thus furnishing the vital basis without which many investors would not have committed their resources.

The Gothaer intends to monitor and support market de-velopments in the renewable energy industry intensively, in order to be able, in the future, too, to evaluate the viability of new technologies and itself evolve insurance products appropriate to the market and the risks in-volved. Insurers such as the Gothaer are, what is more, increasingly becoming investors: in recent years, the Gothaer has acquired both solar and wind energy instal-lations, and is planning investments of around 500 mil-lion euros in this sector in the next few years.

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, DüsseldorfIt all started with a detergentFrom Persil to high-performance adhesives and sealants for the wind energy industry: Henkel is a global supplier of detergents and cleaning agents, beauty and care products, and adhesives technologies. This Düsseldorf- domiciled company, founded in 1876, holds pole market positions in the consumer and industrial sectors with its around 47,000 employees and its world-known brands, such as Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite global. Sales in the 2012 business year totalled more than 16 million euros.

Henkel has a broad range of high-performance adhesive and sealant products for wind energy applications. These include UV- and weathering-resistant sealing systems for steel tower segments, anaerobic threaded-joint securing systems, and a diverse range of products for adhesive bonding of components. Henkel also supplies to the makers of rotor blades polyurethane-based adhesives that permit more efficient rotor blade production. The 100 metre high TimberTower, the world’s first wind en-ergy installation with a wooden tower, was completed in spruce in 2012 using various member of Henkel’s Purbond family of wood adhesives.


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G. Siempelkamp GmbH & Co. KG, KrefeldFrom a textile industry supplier to series manufac-turer for wind energyInnovation as a tradition: based for more than 130 years in the town of Krefeld, equipment supplier Siempelkamp has a global presence in its mechanical and plant engineering, casting systems and nuclear technology business activi-ties. It all started with components for presses used in the textile industry on the Lower Rhine. Now the company has penetrated numerous markets with its hand-moulded ductile iron castings of up to 320 t unit weight.

Since 1999, Siempelkamp has also supplied structural elements such as turbine frames, rotor spinners, stator stars and stub shafts for large onshore and offshore wind energy installations. The first projects involved production of components for 1.5 MW wind energy ma-chines; in recent years, Siempelkamp has expanded its capabilities to include series production for the up to 7.5 MW system range. Cast components for offshore wind energy installations presented particularly great chal-lenges in terms of maximum strength and stability with the lowest possible unit weights. The foundry in Krefeld mastered these with its many years of know-how and the use of the ductile iron material. Around 2800 com-ponents for onshore and offshore wind turbines have been delivered up to now.

ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde GmbH, DortmundFrom railways in the 19th century to wind energy in the 21stThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde GmbH, a member of the ThyssenKrupp group’s Business Area Components Technology, is the world’s largest producer of large rolling-element bearings and also occupies a leading market position in seamless rolled rings. The company was founded in 1855 to produce axles, wheels, fittings and wagons from internally smelted iron for the railway sector. This company’s tower and blade bearings have generated significant impulses around the world in the most diverse range of output categories during the evolution of wind energy technology.

Another milestone was the development of rotor bear-ings. This manufacturer was involved in the design of the very first research systems and prototypes, and provides makers of wind energy facilities with extensive experience drawn from more than three decades of inter-national activity. Ultra-modern test facilities at the com-pany’s own Research & Development Center are used to test bearing designs under the most adverse service conditions, to research new developments and evolve future-orientated solutions for practical application. Other products include wind tower slewing rings and foundation sections, gearing systems, shaft/spinner connections and brake disks.


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Companies in the industry According to the Renewable Energy Agency, just over 34,000 companies in Germany are active in the renewa-ble energy sector, including (in 2012) just on 4,200 in North Rhine-Westphalia. Here, too, the bandwidth extends from globally present company groups, via medium-sized enterprises, up to and including small craft firms. These companies work in the most diverse range of fields, including production, finance, project planning, installation, servicing/maintenance and the subsupplier segment. The great complexity of wind energy systems is reflected in their value chain, which extends to virtually all corpo-rately organised service and production sectors. Precise differentiation is difficult, since not only large companies, such as the wind energy system producers, are involved, but also very many medium-sized and smaller organisa-tions, which achieve only parts of their income from products and services for the wind industry.

Energy Agency.NRW surveys indicate that more than four hundred companies in the state work in the wind energy sector alone.

North Rhine-Westphalia, with its high concentration of subsuppliers and service providers for both the onshore and offshore industry, is the Number 1 supplier state for the German wind energy industry. World-leading suppli-ers of gearing systems for wind energy installations,

such as Bosch Rexroth, Renk, Siemens-Winergy and Eickhoff are based in NRW. The state is, in addition, one of the leading Research & Development locations: a total of twenty-eight university and non-university institutions conduct research into wind energy technology here.

EmploymentWind energy is an engine of employment for Germany as an industrial location. Around 118,000 persons were em-ployed in the wind energy sector throughout Germany in 2012, and the German Wind Energy Association is fore-casting a continuous rise in jobs in the German wind sec-tor up to 160,000 in 2030. In the traditional mining and steel state of North Rhine-Westphalia alone, 14,600 per-sons were working in the wind sector in 2012, according to Renewable Energy Agency statistics. Among all the federal German states, North Rhine-Westphalia thus oc-cupies second place, directly behind Lower Saxony. This equates to an approx. 12.4 per cent share of the total number of wind energy jobs in Germany.

This demonstrates that the beneficiaries of the expan-sion of wind energy are by no means to be found only in the coastal regions where the majority of wind energy installations are located. According to information from the WAB Wind Energy Agency, the labour-intensive production of components for offshore expansion of wind energy generates more than 2,500 jobs in the sub-supplier industry in North Rhine-Westphalia. NRW thus holds pole position in wind energy employment.

System production

Finance

Project development/planning

Transport/installation(systems, farms)

Connection to grid

Operations & Maintenance

NRW value and supply chain

Personnel/skilled employees

Product engeneering

Logistics + SupplyChain Management

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TurnoverNRW wind industry companies are also in the top group in terms of turnover. Investments in wind energy facili-ties installed in Germany amounted in 2012 to approx. 2.6 billion euros. Sales by German manufacturing indus-try were 8.9 billion euros in 2011, an increase of just on 10 per cent compared to the previous year (8.1 billion €).

Sales of just on 2.1 billion euros were achieved in plant and system engineering in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2011, a rise of slightly above 10 per cent compared to the preceding year (approx. 1.9 billion €). In addition, a large number of subsupplier companies also generate addi-tional turnover throughout the value chain. According to WAB Wind Energy Agency information, NRW companies’ share of German sales in offshore wind energy is around 23 per cent of total sales for the wind energy industry in Germany. NRW companies active in the offshore sector thus hold top ranking on an all-German basis.

Export orientation and internationalisationGerman manufacturers and subsuppliers occupy a lead-ing international position in the expansion of wind en-ergy. German technologies and wind energy know-how are in demand on energy markets worldwide. Facility makers from around the world obtain systems and com-

ponents for the production of their equipment from Germany, and thus predominantly from North Rhine-Westphalia. Statistics published by the German Wind Energy Association indicate exports of between 65 and 70 per cent of production by wind energy system makers producing in Germany in 2012.

The citizens’ wind farm revenue-sharing modelThe use of wind energy is an essential element in the de-centralised provision of renewable energy. With its broad and diverse player structure, it also generates a high level of added value which strengthens, very largely irre-spective of economic cycles, the finances of the munici-palities. Most of all, the state’s people must be mobilised if the energy turnaround is to be accelerated. So-called “citizens’ wind farms” provide good opportunities of in-volving citizens in the benefits at regional and district level, with significant economic attractions.

Some twenty-five years after the installation of the first wind energy facilities, citizens’ energy is on the up. Nu-merous citizens’ wind farms have now been successfully established in NRW. These, as a form of citizens’ partici-pation, not only distribute costs, they also assure a share of the profits. Citizens’ wind farms and the potentials for participation may be organised in a number of different

26,390

14,600

11,900

10,040

9,220

8,160

5,080

4,880

4,810

4,800

4,760

4,030

3,680

2,680

1,910

920

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Lower Saxony


Bavaria

Saxony-Anhalt

Baden-Württemberg

Schleswig-Holstein

Brandenburg

Hamburg

Saxony

Bremen


Hesse

Rhineland-Palatinate

Berlin

Thuringia

Saarland

Number of employees

Employment in wind energy in 2012, by federal state

Source: Renewable Energy Agency


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ways: whether it’s a GmbH & Co. KG, a registered co-op-erative society (eG), Institution under Public Law (AöR), a civil-law partnership (GbR), a foundation, energy con-tracting, or bearer bond, citizens’ opportunities of taking a stake in one or more wind energy installations by means of investment are many and diverse. The state of NRW’s “Climate protection via citizens’ energy installations” guideline provides a comprehensive overview, plus orien-tation, to the complex web of economic corporate forms which can, roughly, be split into two categories, in which citizens either co-finance and/or co-produce.

In the case of citizens co-producing, the interested group of persons founds an operating company. Each individual participant is then a co-owner and operator of this com-pany. Each individual thus assumes entrepreneurial re-sponsibility, bearing the entire risk, but also enjoys a full share of the profits. The vital precondition here is careful planning, and risk minimisation via experienced opera-tors and/or insurances.

In the case of co-financing, the citizens co-finance third-party projects, but they do not, generally, assume any entrepreneurial responsibility, and do not become co-owners. In many cases, direct offers by operators are ac-cepted. Stake-taking in corresponding funds has also be-come increasingly established.

Citizens’ wind farms reinforce democratic structures, provide opportunities for profit-sharing, and create po-tentials for keeping profits in the region. Successful mod-els are regionally rooted in three ways: the citizen stake-holders live in the region, the operating company is domiciled in the region, and the wind energy facilities are also constructed in the same region. In addition, there are greater tax yields for the municipalities, due to the citi-zens’ investment in the locality, and also from companies which enjoy new sources of orders and therefore income as a result of their installation and/or service activities.


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SubsidiesA whole range of financial-subsidy provisions is available for the expansion of wind energy. The sources are, de-pending on the particular provision: the federal govern-ment, the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, or banks such as the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) bank-ing group, which promote the expansion of sustainable regenerative energy supplies by means of loans and non-repayable grants. The various provisions differ in terms of the type, amount and repayment term of the subsidy. Private persons, non-profit organisations, municipalities and private companies may be eligible to apply, de-pending, again, on the particular provision. Owner co-operatives of citizens’ wind farms can also obtain subsidies and grants in several instances.

EnergyAgency.NRW’s online subsidy navigator provides an overview of current opportunities for support and fi-nancing of the use of wind energy. A number of examples:

■ The Renewable Energy Sources Act (RESA) is a central instrument for the promotion of wind energy. For a period of twenty years, operators of wind en-ergy facilities are paid a fixed rate per kilowatt hour of wind-electricity generated. The initial payment rate is reduced each year by a specific percentage (1.5 % since 2012) for newly commissioned installations. The amounts vary according to the type of installa-tion and its output; repowered facilities, for example, receive a slightly higher initial rate. Payments may also be higher if the installation contributes to certain improvements in grid integration. In addition to pay-ments for wind power, the Renewable Energy Sources Act also governs the prioritised purchase of this elec-tricity. A revision is scheduled in 2014.

■ The KfW’s Renewable Energy Standard pro-gramme (Programme No. 270) makes provision for low-interest financing of wind energy projects. The construction of new and modernisation of existing wind energy facilities (repowering) can be subsidised up to 100 per cent of the investment, up to a maxi-mum amount of 25 million euros. The rate of interest is determined on the basis of credit risk, while loan terms vary between a minimum of five and a maxi-mum of twenty years.

■ The Rentenbank agricultural development bank’s “Energy from the Land” promotion programme is aimed specifically at wind energy enterprises, the majority shareholdings in which are held by local citi-zens, companies and land owners and the power from which is fed into the public grid. Loans up to a maxi-mum of 10 million euros with maximum terms of twenty years are available. This programme is of in-terest for small- and medium-sized enterprises that intend to develop and operate citizens’ wind farm models, in particular.

■ The NRW.Bank provides support for energy infra-structure projects with its financing loans, in particu-lar. These are used, for example, to co-finance the purchase of sites needed for the construction of a wind energy facility.

Details of these and other promotion programmes for onshore and offshore wind energy projects can be viewed at www.foerder-navi.de.


The development and construction of commercial off-shore wind farms off the German coast have already started, and the first farms have been completed. In the meantime, the domestic offshore wind energy industry has become firmly established: around 18,000 persons were employed in this segment by the end of 2012, ac-counting for around 15 per cent of total jobs in the Ger-man wind energy sector, according to information from the IWR Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry. Not only shipbuilders, marine fabricators, ports, system/component manufacturers and wind-farm operators are benefiting from this trend – subsuppliers active in me-chanical engineering, fabrication and electrical engineer-ing, and thus companies in NRW in many cases, are also profiting from it.

The offshore wind energy market in Europe and GermanyStatistics from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) indicate that a total of fifty-eight offshore wind farms in ten countries were supplying a total of 6,040 MW of wind power by late June, 2013. Current growth is largely focused on the United Kingdom and Denmark. In

Germany, 48 new offshore wind energy facilities were completed and connected to the grid in 2013, bringing currently installed output off German coasts to 520.3 MW. Seven such farms in the North Sea, and one in the Baltic, are currently under construction, with some al-ready nearing completion.

Market forecasts for offshore wind energy up to 2020A significant expansion of offshore wind energy in Europe is anticipated, the highest rates of growth being in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany. European energy policy plans envisage offshore wind farms with a total output of 60 GW in operation by the year 2020.

Despite optimistic forecasts, the expansion of offshore generation of wind power has progressed only slowly in Germany in recent years. Discussions concerning the amendment of the Renewable Energy Sources Act (RESA) and delays in grid connection have caused further uncertainty in the industry. For this reason, the political target of 10 GW installed off German coasts by 2020 will probably not be met. The overall European market trend

Offshore wind energy – market driver for North Rhine-Westphalia

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nonetheless generates great benefits for the market in NRW and for its small- and medium-sized enterprises: 72 per cent of all medium-sized companies in the offshore wind sector are domiciled in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Impetus for NRW’s wind industryWealth creation in the offshore wind industry occurs not only in coastal regions, it is also an economic engine for inland German states such as North Rhine-Westphalia. The federal states close to the coastline above all pro-duce large difficult-to-transport components such as rotor blades and foundations, while companies in NRW supply smaller components, such as gearboxes, genera-tors, brakes, bearings and castings, covering the most important sector of the offshore wind industry’s value

chain. At around 17 per cent of all companies, enterprises active in the supply of systems and components, and subsuppliers, enjoy above-average representation in North Rhine-Westphalia. Together, they achieve more than 50 per cent of the offshore wind industry’s turnover, and employ more than 2,500 persons. North Rhine-Westphalia’s offshore wind industry thus holds pole posi-tion in Germany in terms of employment, and generates turnover of over 1.2 billion euros, equating to around 23 per cent of overall German offshore economic activity, and giving NRW a clear lead over all other federal states. The expansion of offshore wind energy assures NRW of significant investment and sales potentials throughout the value chain, for both the German and the European offshore market.

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Mini wind turbines

On the domestic market, smaller wind turbines are also attracting consumer and public attention. Under certain boundary conditions, this form of energy generation may be attractive as an energy source aimed primarily at on-site consumption. Germany, with twenty-seven mini wind turbine companies, is the third largest producer country, after China and the USA. Many of these companies are located in North Rhine-Westphalia. This sector has only reached the development stage, however, particularly when compared to the solar energy market. The wind energy models currently available also differ significantly in their quality and market maturity. There has, as yet, not been any consolidation among domestic German producers.

The number of mini wind turbines currently installed has not yet been statistically analysed. Estimates by the German Wind Energy Association assume around 10,000 installations in Germany. Mini wind turbines are designed for a range of rated outputs; here, differentia-tion is made between micro wind turbines (up to 1.5 kW rated output), domestic wind turbines (up to 5 kW rated output), intermediate-scale wind turbines (up to 30 kW rated output) and medium-scale wind turbines (up to 100 kW rated output). At prices ranging between 2,000 and 10,000 euros per kilowatt of rated output, installation costs are relatively high when compared to larger sys-tems in the MW class.

The size of mini wind turbines permits their installation at a large range of locations. For this reason, the state government in 2011 simplified the approval procedure for the installation of smaller wind turbines: the amendment to the NRW State Building Regulations exempted small systems up to 10 m in height from the approval require-ment. Systems in purely, generally or special residential zones, and in mixed-utilisation areas, are an exception from this rule. Operators of mini wind turbines must nonetheless demonstrate adherence to all relevant building-law regulations, including those pertaining to environmental protection. The same also applies to requirements for stability, noise abatement, mandatory open spaces, structural analysis and impact on historic sites and buildings.

No boom-like market trend needs to be expected in NRW, however. A mini wind turbine is in many cases not an economic proposition. Because the same feed-in tariff as for multi-MW wind turbines applies, the comparatively low wind potential at the customary spinner heights of between 10 and 30 m and the high specific investment costs result in high generating costs. A mini wind turbine is worthwhile only if the electricity generated is very largely consumed on site. Their use may then be cost efficient, in view of the current private customer electric-ity tariff of 28 cent per kilowatt hour.

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Prof. Dr. Jacobs, what are the focuses of wind en-ergy research in North Rhine-Westphalia?

Industry and research have been traditionally well positioned in the field of power transmission systems in North Rhine-Westphalia. The power transmission technology of wind turbines is gaining steadily in im-portance, and is a focus of wind energy research, particularly at Aachen. Other topics on which re-searchers at both university and non-university insti-tutions in NRW are working include plastics technol-ogy for rotors, structural steel engineering for towers and the turbine frame, foundation technologies, aerodynamics and the design of electrical grids.

How is wind energy research at Aachen organised?

At Aachen, the Center for Wind Power Drives (CWD) has been set up. It combines seven institutes working on power transmission in wind energy facilities, which will be all housed together in a new building on the RWTH campus as from the summer of 2014. Our Center also includes the new system-testing facility

for testing of onshore wind energy installations, which is still undergoing construction. As for research in this field, NRW has, with its investment in the CWD, created the preconditions necessary to provide effective support to companies in the state and, at the same time, to raise international awareness of them. At the CWD, we are also concerned to intensify co-operation with other scientists, particularly within NRW, with the aim of jointly furthering research in wind energy. We already work closely with the research centre at Jülich.

What research is performed at the CWD?

The rotor drive train and its components are critical for the availability of the system as a whole. Failures may occur if the great loads acting on a rotor are not quanti-fied correctly during development of the system. A wind rotor is subject to unscheduled standstills of around one to two weeks each year, and it is important to have pre-cise knowledge of the drive train and of the loads acting on it, in order to further reduce downtimes and repair costs. Wind rotors are exposed to totally unique stress mechanisms, and our aim is to determine what damage

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Prof. Dr. Georg Jacobs is the head of the Center for Wind Power Drives (CWD) at RWTH University of Aachen. He talks in this interview about wind energy research in North Rhine-Westphalia and its significance for the industry.

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can occur when, and how it can be minimised. We there-fore test these systems in our laboratory. Up to now, we have had only a small system-testing facility, for units of 1 MW, and we have used this to gain important experi-ence and determine test conditions. The new test facil-ity, for systems of up to 4 MW, will be commissioned in September 2014, and we are already preparing a re-search project supported by NRW.Hightech for this facil-ity, in order that we can start right away with series of measurements.

The new test facility will not be the only one, how-ever, other research institutions and producers also have them. What is special about your test facility in Aachen?

Our test facility uses high-performance computers and special load simulators to provide an authentic picture of both the wind and the power grid. We can test the en-tire real operating behaviour of systems in our labora-tory, and this simplifies the performance and improves the informational value of our measurements. And we don’t have to wait for the wind, as we do on site, we can

set it exactly as we need it. The other test facilities, around the world, cannot do this. They are restricted to injecting synthetic loads and are not capable of in-vestigating real-life operating behaviour. Wind-en-ergy facility manufacturers are showing great inter-est precisely in series of measurements performed during real system operation.

What importance does your research have for the wind industry in NRW?

For system and gearbox manufacturers in NRW, it is important to determine precisely the loads acting on every component of the drive train as a function of operating state. This knowledge makes it possible to enhance the reliability of wind energy facilities and cut production costs. Our research is thus aimed at improving the cost-efficiency of systems, in order to be more competitive at international level.

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Research as a partner of the industryA future-orientated industry such as wind power can succeed only if it can make use of new research discov-eries promptly and directly – whether it be by way of close cooperation between enterprises and research institutions, or by way of the implementation of univer-sally accessible new perceptions on innovative products and services. This is the foundation, inter alia, of the great economic success of the wind energy subsupplier companies, which have adapted or optimised existing technologies and know-how gained from many years of experience for the new wind energy market, and have thus become an important driving factor in structural change in NRW. The state’s wind energy industry has made it wind energy subsupplier state No. 1 around the world.

NRW’s wind energy research and scientific institutions have adjusted to the structure of the subsupplier and service provision landscape: the focal emphases of the total of thirty-five institutions at thirteen universities and four non-university institutions working in this field are on wind measurement and forecasting, the production of wind energy installations and components, mechani-cal and electrical engineering for the drive train, electric-ity transmission and distribution, and grid integration and electricity storage. Construction technology and lo-gistics are other topics being tackled in North Rhine-Westphalia on an innovation-orientated basis. In line with the breadth of research performed here, one in two

research focuses for the wind energy sector is concen-trated here in the west of Germany.

Because wind energy alone will not be able to meet all future energy needs, it must be embedded in an ecologi-cally and macroeconomically rational energy mix which supports NRW’s climate protection targets and is so-cially and politically accepted. Energy research plays an important role in this context. The state’s Ministry of In-novation, Science, Research and Technology has estab-lished, in the Cluster EnergyResearch.NRW (CEF.NRW), operated under the auspices of EnergyAgency.NRW, a contact on all questions concerning university energy research which focuses its interdisciplinary activities on the energy supply system as a whole.

The research cluster promotes systematic interchange between the various energy-technology disciplines, such as mechanical engineering, environmental technol-ogy, the natural sciences, regional planning, economics, civil engineering and electrical engineering, by initiating Research & Development projects. The CEF.NRW’s aim is to get technological and socio-economic advances from the universities into use and to the market more quickly than has previously been the case.

In addition, the state government also promotes Research & Development in wind energy by means of competi-tions, thus supporting research activities by private

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enterprise. A large number of projects are financed en-tirely by private companies, many of whom co-operate with universities in NRW on the development of new products and services, or their adaptation and optimisa-tion for use in wind energy installations.

Gearboxes and test facilitiesAt the RWTH University of Aachen, for example, the capabilities of seven institutes from various disciplines and six co-operation partners are concentrated at the “Center for Wind Power Drives”, in order to study the behaviour of complete drive trains. Both wind energy system manufacturers and leading gearbox makers are included. Also participating is the Research Association for Power Transmission Engineering (FVA), which provides companies with the opportunity of improving their techni-cal know-how and the quality of their products, while cut-ting production costs, by means of joint research.

The setting up and use of a gear train test facility for systems up to 4 MW are the current focus of interest. Intensive work is also going on at the RWTH for the de-velopment of an electric gearbox for wind energy instal-lations to match fluctuating rotor speed to the fixed grid frequency without the use of large frequency converters and maintenance-intensive hydraulic systems.

The Ruhr University Bochum is also active in the field of gearing, with its Department of Mechanical and Auto-motive Engineering. Here, the emphasis is on new mate-rials for gearing wheels for wind energy systems, in co-operation with private companies and the University of Paderborn.

The state government is also supporting a feasibility study into the construction and operation of a test facil-ity for the drive trains of wind turbines with gearboxes in the output range from 10 to 20 MW, which is to be set up at the Jülich research centre. This test facility will per-form long-term tests under overload conditions signifi-cantly exceeding design loads, in order to determine the service life of the components. This feasibility study is being conducted in view of the investment risk, high costs and technical challenges involved in the building and operation of such a test facility.

Services as a research focusNot only technology attracts great interest, however. At the FIR Institute for Industrial Management of the RWTH in Aachen, a scenario-based procedure for the planning of industrial service programmes is being developed, taking particular account of the require-ments of medium-sized mechanical and plant engineer-ing companies. It is based on assessment of the in each case particularly high corporate potentials that promise long-term competitive advantages over competing or-ganisations. Such planning is capable of significantly re-ducing the input for service programme planning. It also assists in minimising the risk of entry to new markets for independent industrial service providers.

In addition to assured provision of industrial services for growing markets, energy management questions – the assurance of grid stability and potentials for power stor-age, for example – are a fundamental research require-ment. The second main emphasis at the RWTH University of Aachen, under examination at the “Power Generation and Storage Systems” institute of the “E.ON Energy Research Center” is therefore a central question which must be answered if the energy turnaround is to succeed: How can the individual machines at one large or a number of individual wind farms be operated to-gether as a power plant in such a way that they support the stability of the power grids? The University of Duisburg-Essen is also working on similar questions. Here, the topics under examination extend from the integration of a single installation, via grid-connection provisions, up to and including the integration of wind energy into international transmission grids.

Storage technologiesStorage technologies are an essential research topic for the assurance of energy supplies from such volatile en-ergy sources as the wind. The Hydrogen Competence

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Centre H2 in Herten is currently researching a wind power electrolysis system which combines a wind en-ergy facility with a hydrogen-based complementary en-ergy system in order to store wind power. The concept is based on electrolysis: a portion of the regeneratively-generated electricity is stored in the form of electrolyti-cally generated hydrogen. This hydrogen is converted back to electricity and fed into the grid using a fuel cell system when direct supplies from wind power are not adequate, or when transient load peaks need to be met.

Energy EconomicsFinally, the University of Cologne’s Institute of Energy Economics focuses on the problems of energy econom-ics. The consequences of the energy turnaround and as-sociated technological and macroeconomic questions for international markets is a research topic under which assuredness of supply, integration into European condi-tions and major infrastructural projects are being exam-ined and researched.

Non-universitary research facilitiesThe use of wind energy is being further developed and optimised not only in the context of scientific research, however. Specialist companies and institutions are themselves assisting in the technical improvement of equipment. At windtest grevenbroich gmbh, an NRW company operates one of the few test facilities any-where in the world for onshore wind turbines. The com-pany is, in addition, the exclusive partner for all measur-ing services at Europe’s largest inland test facility, located at Lelystad in the Netherlands. Many system manufacturers also make use of the great capabilities of Windtechnologische Gesellschaft (wtg) for measure-ment and testing of wind turbines in accordance with national and international codes of practice.

These are just a few examples of the wind energy re-search landscape in NRW, which is consistently orien-tated around furthering the energy turnaround along with all its participants, and thus lighting a beacon for similar programmes around the world.

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EnergyAgency.NRW

EnergyAgency.NRW works on behalf of the state govern-ment of North Rhine-Westphalia as an operational plat-form with a broad mandate in the field of energy: from energy research, technological development, demon-stration and market launches, via energy consulting, up to and including professional further training. In times of high energy prices, it is more important than ever to accelerate the development of innovative energy tech-nologies in NRW and to show, impartially, how compa-nies, municipalities and private persons can use energy more economically and make rational use of renewable energy sources.

The agency has around one hundred employees work-ing at, among other places, the main offices in Düssel-dorf, Gelsenkirchen and Wuppertal, and is partially financed from the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

EnergyAgency.NRW’s focal topics are, in detail:

1. Responsibility, in the EnergyRegion.NRW, for a high-capability cluster in climate protection, complete with the eight networks of Biomass, Fuel Cells and Hydrogen, Energy Efficiency and Solar Building, Geothermics, Fuels and Drives of the Future, Power Plant Technology, Photovoltaics and Wind Energy. Current focus: the organisation of competitive cooperation projects between NRW companies, in order thus to initiate innovative projects and products, accelerate their market maturity, and exhaust all economic potentials, including the provision of support for foreign-trade activities.

2. The EnergyResearch.NRW (CEF.NRW) cluster sees its function as being the contact for all energy re-search matters in NRW, and effectively furthers the co-ordinated cooperation of research and science with industry.

3. Energy consulting: Here, EnergyAgency.NRW experts provide information on opportunities for grants/sub-sidies, assisting companies in reducing their energy costs by detecting energy weak points – from build-ing automation systems, up to and including produc-tion operations. The spectrum ranges from heating systems, heat recovery, up to and including insulation for protection against heat and cold in large industrial buildings, and from leak detection up to and including the drafting of complete energy concepts.

4. Further training: EnergyAgency.NRW provides a whole series of further-training seminars, which are available for end consumers, further-training institu-tions, energy supply utilities, associations, clubs, universities/colleges, municipalities and companies in NRW.

5. The “EnergyDialogue.NRW” is an active contact and advisory service organised by EnergyAgency.NRW for citizens, municipalities and investors. A profession-ally managed conflict mediation service is available to persons in NRW in case of conflict – in the context of planning and approval procedures, for example.

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BEW Bildungszentrum für die Ver- und Entsorgungswirtschaft GmbHWimberstraße 1, 45239 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 [email protected], www.bew.de

BEW has been one of the leading providers of initial and further training in environmental technology and environmental law for 30 years.

GLS Bank Christstraße 9, 44789 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 234 5797 [email protected], www.gls.de

The GLS Bank is the world’s first socio-ecological universal bank, and provides a broad and sustainable range of services.

Haus der TechnikHollestraße 1, 45127 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 1803-1 [email protected], www.hdt-essen.de

Seminars, conferences and Master’s degrees for the wind energy sector. 5500 participants up to now, around 50 events each year. Impartial and technically qualified speakers.

KRAFTWERKSSCHULE E.V. Deilbachtal 199, 45257 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 8489 156 [email protected], www.kws-erneuerbare.de

KRAFTWERKSSCHULE E.V. provides a comprehensive range of basic and advanced training in renewable energies, and for the wind energy sector in particular.

VDI Wissensforum GmbH VDI-Platz 1, 40468 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 [email protected], www.vdi-wissensforum.de

VDI Wissensforum GmbH is one of the leading specialists in further training for engineers and for skilled/managerial staff in the technical field.

windConsultant – Annette NüssleinWiesdorfer Straße 5, 40591 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 56695-104 [email protected], www.windconsultant.de, www.omwindenergy.de

Business consulting, PR and marketing, business networks; studies; events, fairs and exhibitions abroad, export promotion

Deutsche Windtechnik Service GmbH & Co. KG Ansprechpartner: Herr Kai Flatterich, Disponent Service, Tel.: +49 (0) 4845 79168-0 [email protected], www.deutsche-windtechnik.de

Complete technical service for wind energy turbines from a single source

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E+K Wind OWL GmbH & Co. KG Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 115, 32760 Detmold, Tel.: +49 (0) 5231 878448 [email protected], www.ek-wind.de

E+K Wind OWL plans and implements projects; core capabilities are development, planning, implementa-tion, financing and operation.

GWS Tech Service GmbHLeopold-Hoesch-Straße 5–7, 52511 Geilenkirchen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2451 48 20 [email protected], www.gws-tech.de

Installation, commissioning, servicing/maintenance, repairs, training

momac GmbH & Co. KGAm Schürmannshütt 39, 47441 Moers, Tel.: +49 (0) 2841 1802-0 [email protected], www.momac-group.de

Repair of gearboxes and generators including insite repairs where possible, pitch cylinders, CMS, MetalSCAN, endoscopic inspection

Murphy & Spitz Green Energy AGRiesstraße 2, 53113 Bonn, Tel.: +49 (0) 228 243911 [email protected], www.ms-green-energy.de

Independent power producer with large-scale renewable energy facilities in Germany and Europe. Opportunities for fixed-interest cash investments.

psm Nature Power Service & Management GmbH & Co. KGJülicher Straße 10 – 12, 41812 Erkelenz, Tel.: +49 (0) 2431 97 33 6 [email protected], www.psm-service.com

Technical and commercial management, maintenance and servicing • Dismantling of old facilities • Repow-ering • Converter, transformer, gearbox services

REWITEC GmbH – Büro NRWLeydelstraße 75, 47802 Krefeld, Tel.: +49 (0)2151 362 [email protected], www.rewitec.com

DuraGear® range coating concentrates for wind energy gearboxes • GR400 special grease for ball, plain and rolling-element bearings, etc. A143

Ruthmann GmbH & Co. KGVon-Braun-Straße 4, 48712 Gescher-Hochmoor, Tel.: +49 (0) 28 63 / [email protected], www.ruthmann.de

STEIGER® – hydraulic lorry-mounted lifting platforms – from 11 to 100.4m working height, used for regular inspection/maintenance of wind energy installations.

Triflex GmbH & Co. KGKarlstraße 59, 32423 Minden in Westfalen, Tel.: +49 (0)571 / [email protected], www.triflex.de

Triflex Towersafe maintenance-free foundation sealing system

UE Systems DeutschlandIn der Mark 29, 57413 Finnentrop, Tel: +49 (0) 171 [email protected], www.uesystems.de

We supply ultrasonic measuring systems for the following applications: Leak detection, Mechanical and electrical inspection, Valves and steam traps

WAY TO WIND GmbH & Co. KGKölner Straße 25, 53925 Kall, Tel.: +49 (0) 2441 99 90 [email protected], www.waytowind.de

WAY TO WIND markets mini wind energy facilities to corporate customers, with an individual advertising concept, for internal production of green electricity using wind energy.


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Dortmunder Energie- und Wasserversorgung GmbH (DEW21)Ostwall 51, 44135 Dortmund, Tel.: +49 (0) 231 5441186 [email protected], www.dew21.de

DEW21 is one of Germany’s leading municipal wind power generators, with 76 MW of installed output. Potentials for expansion are consistently exploited.

RWE Netzservice GmbHFriedrichstraße 60, 57072 Siegen, Tel.: +49 (0) 271 584-2182 [email protected], www.rwe.com/netzservice

RWE Netzservice GmbH is one of the largest providers of planning, project management, construction, operation and maintenance services for power, gas and water grids and components.

Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AGHöherweg 100, 40233 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 821 [email protected], www.swd-ag.de

Grünstrom Direktvermarktung: The Stadtwerke Düsseldorf municipal utility brings your EEG electricity to the free market – capably, personally, profitably.

STEAG New Energies GmbHDuisburger Straße 170, 46535 Dinslaken, Tel.: +49 (0) 2064 608 [email protected], www.steag-newenergies.com

We plan, implement and operate wind energy projects on sites suitable for wind power installations, such as spoil heaps, landfills, field and wooded sites

Trianel GmbHLombardenstraße 28, 52070 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 [email protected], www.trianel.com

Specialist welding company in accordance with DIN EN 1090, ISO 9001:2008 certified, branch in the USA

Vattenfall Europe Sales GmbH III. Hagen 37, 45127 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 94699172 [email protected], www.vattenfall.de

Your partner for direct marketing of wind and PV energy: Higher revenues than from RESA guaranteed, no marketing risks, single-sourced services!

DAL Structured Finance GmbHRheinpromenade 4, 40789 Monheim, Tel.: +49 (0)217326937 [email protected], www.dal.de

We are a member of the Sparkasse group and provide: Development of financing structures and arrangement of project loans

Engemann & Partner, Rechtsanwälte und NotareKastanienweg 9, 59555 Lippstadt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2941 [email protected], www.engemann-und-partner.de

Comprehensive legal support for all renewable energy projects, particularly in wind energy – advice for operators, planners and municipalities

Kanzlei BusmannLengericher Landstraße 11b, 49078 Osnabrück, Tel.: +49 (0) 541 600 18 79 [email protected], www.kanzlei-busmann.de

The Busmann firm of lawyers specialises in renewable energy law, planning law and both domestic and international transactions.

Energy utility and supplier of green electricity

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Kreissparkasse Köln Neumarkt 18–24, 50667 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 2272478 [email protected], www.ksk-koeln.de

Structuring of individual financing solutions – particularly in the on-shore wind, photovoltaics and biogas segments of the renewable energy industries.

Marsh GmbHKasernenstraße 69, 40213 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 8987 [email protected], www.marsh.de

Risk and insurance management • Special insurance solutions for the energy industry • Risk & Insurance, Due Diligence for mergers and acquisitions

NRW.BANKKavalleriestraße 22, 40213 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 91741 - 0 [email protected], www.nrwbank.de

NRW.BANK is the development bank for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. It supports its owner – the State of North Rhine-Westphalia – with regard to economic and structural tasks.

Osborne ClarkeInnere Kanalstraße 15, 50823 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 5108 [email protected], www.osborneclarke.de

Legal assistance for German and international projects and joint ventures throughout the renewable energy sector and comprehensive legal advice for companies and associations in the energy sector

Dr. Grauthoff – Unternehmensberatung für Energie und UmweltHeistermannstraße 1, 46539 Dinslaken, Tel.: +49 (0) 2064 42 40 [email protected]

Approval and construction-management planning, environmental-impact assessment, landscape-care support plan, biodiversity assessment, landscape analysis

enveco GmbHGrevener Straße 61c, 48149 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.enveco.de

All expertises required for approval of wind energy installations • Advisory services for municipalities • Repowering concepts • Betreiber-Datenbasis, marketing BDB-Index • Advisory services CO2 market

ENVIRONMENT – Planungsgemeinschaft Stadt und UmweltHeistermannstraße 1, 46539 Dinslaken, Tel.: +49 (0) 2064 47 63 [email protected]

Construction-management and approval planning, biodiversity assessment, environmental-impact assessment, landscape-care support plan, landscape analysis

EuroWind GmbHRobert-Perthel-Straße 19, 50739 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0)221 57 95 [email protected], www.eurowind.info

Measuring data analyses • Wind resource and energy yield assessments • Wind power potential analyses • Acoustic assessments • Shadow flicker assessments • Turbulence assessments • Wind power and solar power forecasts

Grontmij GmbHGraeffstraße 5, 50823 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 [email protected], www.grontmij.de

Regional planning and approval procedures, site location search, species protection, land use planning / urban development planning, rights of way, communication

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Assessors

KÖTTER Consulting EngineersBonifatiusstraße 400, 48432 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 [email protected], www.koetter-consulting.com

Noise immission predictions • Emission + Immission measurements • Acoustic component optimization Accredited lab for German-wide measurements of sound and vibrations

Kortemeier Brokmann Landschaftsarchitekten GmbHOststraße 92, 32051 Herford, Tel.: +49 (0) 5221 [email protected], www.kortemeier-brokmann.de

Potentials analyses, environmental-impact study, Natura 2000-VP, biodiversity assessment, LCSP, project-impact assessments, landscape-impact analyses, GIS services, environmental construction-phase support.

Landschaftsplanungsbüro SelingMax-Reger-Straße 24, 49076 Osnabrück, Tel.: +49 (0) 541 [email protected], www.planungsbuero-seling.de

WEI appraisals: Animal-impact appraisals (birds and bats), EIS + LCSP + biodiversity assessment, Prelimi-nary assessment in acc. with Article 3c, Environmental report for land utilisation plan, 3D visuals, etc.

Ökoplan – Bredemann, Fehrmann, Hemmer und KordgesSavignystraße 59, 45147 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 [email protected], www.oekoplan-essen.de

Biodiversity assessments, Animal-life mapping, Obtrusive effects assessments, Land utilisation plan changes, environmental reports, LCSP, EIS

reko GmbH & Co. KGSander-Bruch-Str. 10, 33106 Paderborn, Tel.: +49 (0) 5254 95 28 [email protected], www.rekowind.de

Noise, enshadowment, wind and revenue/profit appraisals, moving-image displays, visual impact studies. General advisory services form part of every order.

SOLvent GmbHLünener Straße 211, 59174 Kamen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2307 [email protected], www.solvent.de, Contact: Dipl.-Inf. Johannes Waterkamp

Revenue/profit forecasts, wind farm calculations, noise-pollution forecasts, enshadowment forecasts, potentials studies, consulting

TCP Prüftechnik GmbHHarkortstraße 3, 48163 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.tcp-online.net

Non-destructive materials testing consultancy and equipment supplier. Non-destructive testing services: X-ray, ultrasound, surface, ACFM®

TÜV NORD SysTec GmbH & Co. KGLangemarckstraße 20, 45141 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 40 [email protected], www.tuev-nord.de

Type Certification, Type Approval, Offshore Project Certification, Energy yield assessment, CFD, Risk analysis, QA/QC, Fabrication/manufacturing/periodic/damage inspections

BRAUN Windturbinen GmbHSüdstraße 19, 57583 Nauroth, Tel.: +49 (0) 2747 [email protected], www.braun-windturbinen.com

ANTARIS Small windturbines in the range from 2.5 kW - 9.5 kW; Alternators from 2.5 kW - 18.0 kW; Rotor-blades from 3.0 m D - 6.5 m Diameter; Grid Inverter for Windturbines from 2.0 kW - 10.0 kW; electronic Controll systems

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Bühler Technologies GmbH Harkortstraße 29, 40880 Ratingen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2102 [email protected], www.buehler-technologies.com

Devices and controllers for liquid level, pressure and temperature, plus coolers, pumps and filters

con-SEPT GmbH Alarichstraße 1, 50679 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 422 90 329 [email protected], www.con-sept.com

con-SEPT supplies mini-wind energy systems with an output of approx. 600-800kWh per year. This system can be set up extremely easy, with no need for screwdrivers and spanners.

Eovent GmbHBeginenstraße 9, 52066 Aachen , Tel.: +49 (0) 241 [email protected], www.eovent.com

Eovent makes vertical-axis small wind turbines. We couple clean and safe electricity with a powerful way of communicating your ecological identity.

GE Wind Energy GmbHHolsterfeld 16, 48499 Salzbergen, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 980 0 [email protected], www.ge-renewable-energy.com

2.5-120: 2.5 MW, rotor 120m, tower 110, 120, 139m. Support in project development, financing, operation, maintenance, netzint., extensive range of services

Kenersys Europe GmbHAlbersloher Weg 10, 48155 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 21099 [email protected], www.kenersys.com

Wind-energy installations for various wind zones (K82, K98, K100, K110 and K120) for spinner heights of 80m to 145m

NEUHÄUSER Windtec GmbH Scharnhorststraße 11 – 16, 44532 Lünen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2306 949 0 [email protected], www.neuhaeuser.com

NEUHÄUSER Windtec GmbH produces and markets wind energy installations with 5 and 40 kW outputs.

Nheolis c/o Dongfang GmbH, Schirl 72, 48346 Ostbevern, Tel.: +49 (0) 2532 7090 [email protected], www.nheolis.de

Maker of downwind mini wind energy installations, 1.5 to 12 kWp, “Chistera” rotor technology. Marketed in Germany by Dongfang GmbH, Ostbevern

Nordex Energy GmbHCentroallee 263a, 46047 Oberhausen, Tel: +49 (0) 40 30030 [email protected], www.nordex-online.com

Nordex offers high-efficiency wind turbines for onshore • N117 2400, N100 2500, N90 2500, N117 3000, N100 3300 • N131/3000 • Project development • Full service and maintenance

superwind GmbH Am Rankewerk 2–4, 50321 Brühl, Tel.: +49 (0) 2232 577357 [email protected], www.superwind.com

Manufacturer of mini wind generators from 0.3 to 3 kW. Used mainly by authorities and industry for non-grid supply functions

Vestas Deutschland GmbH Niederlassung Osnabrück, Eduard-Pestel-Straße 2, 49080 Osnabrück, Tel.: +49 (0) 541 [email protected], www.vestas.de

Every day, more than 49,000 Vestas wind energy installations supply clean energy that assists in the global battle against climate change.

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BBB Umwelttechnik GmbHMunscheidstraße 14, 45886 Gelsenkirchen, Tel.: +49 (0) 209 167 2550 [email protected], www.bbb-umwelt.com

BBB offers planning and engineering services, provides bankable wind reports and wind measurements (according to DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025) and delivers technical due diligence services.

BBWind Projektberatungsgesellschaft mbHSchorlemerstraße 12–14, 48143 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.bbwind.de

We enable you to implement and operate your own wind farm projects. We advise, you decide!

BMR energy solutions GmbH Weserstraße 9, 41836 Hückelhoven, Tel.: +49 (0) 2433 98159-0 [email protected], www.bmr-energy.com

The BMR group provides wind, solar and bio-energy solutions.

CPC GermaniaMax-Born-Straße 1, 48431 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 [email protected], www.cleanpowercompany.de

Wind energy • Planning, project development • Project implementation/realisation • Technical and Commercial Management

doaro energie UG haftungsbeschränktNachbarsweg 105 b, 45481 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Tel.: +49 (0) 208 48 72 [email protected]

Planning and implementation of wind and solar energy locations • Marketing to energy utilities, investors and citizens’ associations • Commercial management

Energiekontor AGRitterstraße 12a, 52072 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 [email protected], www.energiekontor.de

Planning, construction, financing, operation of wind and solar farms in Germany, UK and Portugal, currently nearly 500 wind power installations at 86 wind farms.

EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KGAn der alten Ziegelei 2, 40789 Monheim am Rhein, Tel.: +49 (0) 2173 [email protected], www.eplan.de

EPLAN Software & Service advises companies on process optimisation and develops tailor-made PLM concepts and mechatronic engineering solutions.

Erneuerbare Energien GmbH Dipl.-Ing. Emmerich, Biebricherstraße 16, 47802 Krefeld, Tel.: +49 (0) 2151 56 92 [email protected], www.windrat.de

Implementation of wind energy projects from site location via approval procedures, clarification of grid connection, contract making, up to commissioning

Hofer & Pautz GbR Buchenallee 18, 48341 Altenberge, Tel.: +49 (0) 2505 [email protected], www.hofer-pautz.de

Planning • assessment • Environmental-impact assessment, environmental report, LCSP • Applications in acc. with § 4 BImSchG • Animal-life studies, biodiversity, vegetation • conservation law • Ecological construction-phase support

IPEK energy GmbH Marktplatz 4, 48431 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 914619 [email protected], www.ipek-energy.com

Project development in wind, solar energy • Wind-, noise-, shadow analysis assessments • Preparation of applications • Tendering, negotiation, contract awarding • Construction management, commissioning

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juwi Energieprojekte GmbHKaternberger Straße 107, 45327 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 [email protected], www.juwi.de

Economic development of wind energy projects at forestry and agricultural sites – Acquisition • site as-sessment • planning • financing • construction, operational management

Kohr WindenergieEngerweg 22, 47877 Willich, Tel.: +49 (0) 163 7474933 [email protected], www.kohr-wind.de

Kohr Windenergie provides all-in solutions for new wind energy facilities and modifications, from site location up to generation.

KTB GmbH Technologie-Beratung und -Planung Beisenstraße 39–41, 45964 Gladbeck, Tel.: +49 (0) 2043 [email protected], www.ktb-info.de

Consulting, planning and financial/risk management for wind power installations

Land+Wind Umweltplanung Roddestraße 5, 48153 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0 )251 53 555 [email protected], www.landundwind.de

Determination of potential sites, environmental-impact study, environmental reports for construction- management planning, LCSP, biodiversity assessment, approval planning for wind farms, etc.

melius-energie GmbH Wilhelm-Busch-Str. 62, 49479 Ibbenbüren, Tel.: +49 (0) 5451 [email protected], www.melius-energie.de

Wind-energy planning for third-party and citizens’ wind energy projects. Services extending from the initial idea up to and including successful implementation, plus operational management.

N·E·ST Neue Energie Steinfurt GmbH Hollich 79, 48565 Steinfurt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2551 919 55 [email protected], www.n-e-st.de

Planning and project management • Remote control of wind power facilities • Direct electricity marketing • Planning of cable routes • Wind-farm siting

öKon Landschaftsplanung GmbH Liboristraße 13, 48155 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 13 30 [email protected], www.oekon.de

Environmental-impact studies • Landscape-care support plans • Landscape-aesthetics studies • Ecological construction support • Biodiversity assessments

Ostwind GruppeIm Freihafen 4, 47138 Duisburg, Tel.: +49 (0)203 [email protected], www.ostwind.de

OSTWIND develops, plans and constructs wind farms – 483 wind energy installations (755 MW capacity) planned, constructed and grid-connected up to now!

PNE WIND AGTechnologiepark 19, 33100 Paderborn, Tel.: +49 (0) 5251 [email protected], www.pnewind.com

Planning, implementation, financing and operational sale, with follow-up service, for onshore and offshore wind farms, national/international

Prowind GmbH Lengericher Landstraße 11b, 49078 Osnabrück, Tel.: +49 (0) 541 600 29 [email protected], www.prowind.com

Prowind GmbH has been a full-service provider for all facets of wind energy, based in Osnabrück, since 2000.

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SL NaturEnergie Gruppe Voßbrinkstraße 124, 45964 Gladbeck, Tel.: +49 (0) 2043 [email protected], www.sl-naturenergie.com

We have seventeen years of experience in supporting wind energy and PV projects throughout their development cycles: planning, construction, operation and beyond.

Stadtwerke Münster GmbH Hafenplatz 1, 48155 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.stadtwerke-muenster.de/wind

Cooperation partner for citizens and municipalities • Single-source planning, construction and operation • Optimisation of operational and maintenance management

WES energy GmbH Monschauer Straße 12, 40549 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 58 300 [email protected], www.wes-energy.de

Whether individual services or turnkey projects, WES energy develops, plans and implements professional wind energy solutions.

Wolters Partner Architekten & Stadtplaner GmbHDaruper Straße 15, 48653 Coesfeld, Tel.: +49 (0)2541 94080 [email protected], www.wolterspartner.de

Planning of concentration zones • Drafting of land utilisation and development plans • Planning-process support • Preliminary ecological estimates

wpd onshore GmbH & Co. KG Benzenbergstraße 2, 40219 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 [email protected], www.wpd.de

Development of wind farms: Project planning, structuring and financing, tendering and construction, operation, technical and commercial management

WWK Partnerschaft für UmweltplanungMolkenstraße 5, 48231 Warendorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 2581 [email protected], www.wwk-umweltplanung.de

Urban land-use planning • EIA, biodiversity assessment • LCSP • animal-life studies • enshadowment forecasts • individual analyses of visual impact

ZERNA Baumanagement GmbHLise-Meitner-Allee 11, 44801 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 234 92 04-1433 [email protected], www.zerna-bm.eu

Project development • project implementation • repowering • engineering • repair • production supervision • construction supervision • on-shore • inspection • technical due diligence

airwerk GmbHSchürmannstraße 30b, 45136 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 [email protected], www.airwerk.com

Measurement solutions for structural monitoring of offshore wind energy converter • Wind measurement campaigns • Conceptual design of steel lattice towers for Wind Energy Converter (WEC) • Project develop-ment services

AREGUS ServicesBügelstraße 2, 46045 Oberhausen, Tel.: +49 (0) 208 [email protected], www.aregus.de

Energy Management Auditor • ISO 50001 • Permission management • HAZOP Studies • Risk assessment • Occupational health and safety • Environmental Management • Data safety/Data security

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ash ProjekteWolff-Metternich-Str. 12, 33102 Paderborn, Tel.: +49 (0) 5251 [email protected], www.ash-projekte.de

Projects, sales and marketing: Advisory services for targeted marketing and internationalization; Marketing services for networks and technology

Brunel Car Synergies GmbHDinnendahlstraße 9, 44809 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 234 4171-134 [email protected], www.carsynergies.de

Accredited laboratory for operational/vibration stability – environmental simulation and hydraulic pres-sure test, damage analyses, FEM, design, test-facility construction, development support

Center for Wind Power Drives (CWD) der RWTH Aachen c/o Chair for Wind Power Drives, Schinkelstraße 10, 52062 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 8095635 [email protected], www.cwd.rwth-aachen.de

4 MW nacelle system test bench • Real wind loads in six degrees of freedom • Grid simulation including FRT tests • Interdisciplinary research • WTG drive train technology

Deutsche Messe/Hannover, Büro NRW Rheinallee 128, 40545 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 [email protected], www.messe.de

HANNOVER MESSE – Wind Leading Trade Fair for Wind Generation Technology, Components and Services

DMT GmbH & Co. KGAm Technologiepark 1, 45307 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 172 [email protected], www.dmt.de

Condition monitoring systems for condition-orientated maintenance, component testing and construction of test rigs for drive systems

EcofinConcept GmbHRheinstraße 7, 41836 Hückelhoven, Tel.: +49 (0) 2433 970 [email protected], www.ecofinconcept.de

Renewable energy sources • Consulting • project development • agency services • investments • Wind farms • wind energy installations • solar farms • solar installations • repowering

EFTAS Fernerkundung Technologietransfer GmbH Oststraße 2–18, 48145 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0)251 [email protected], www.eftas.com

Geo-data •Environmental information • GeoIT infrastructures •Satellite-image analysis • Aerial-image interpretation

ELE-Scholven-Wind GmbH Rüttenscheider Straße 1 – 3, 45128 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2064 608 [email protected]

Construction and operation of the Oberscholven spoil-heap wind energy facilities

ENVISYS GmbH & Co. KG c/o Lisa Schöffel M.A., Salierring 13, 50677 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 3643 49527 [email protected], www.envisys.de

Software TURBINE; for calculation of energy yield and the cost-efficiency of wind energy installations and farms, from mini to large-scale installations

EurA Consult AGDennewartstraße 25–27, 52068 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 963 12 [email protected], www.euraconsult.de

Management of the “InTeWind” network (www.intewind.de), implementation of wind energy development projects, assistance in obtaining subsidies

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FGH GmbHRoermonder Str. 199, 52072 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 997857250 [email protected], www.fgh-gmbh.com

Grid integration for generation plants, units, and components: accredited certification according to international grid codes, LVRT test labs, type testing, system and facility evaluation, model validation.

Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG Gothaer Allee 1, 50969 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 308 31794 [email protected], www.gothaer.de

One of Europe’s leading Insurers in the wind energy sector Insurance solutions for renewable energy technologies and projects at any state.

Hansa Luftbild AGNevinghoff 20, 48147 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 23 30 [email protected], www.hansaluftbild.de

LiDAR • System monitoring • Basic data for new construction projects • Site location • Feasibility studies • Ecological construction-phase supervision • Management of mitigation and compensation measures

HUSUM Wind Ohligser Straße 45, 40591 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 4841 902 [email protected], www.husumwind.com

HUSUM Wind has been the showcase of wind technology for twenty-five years. Mark your diary: 15 to 18 September 2015!

KISTERS AG Charlottenburger Allee 5, 52068 Aachen, Tel.: +49 (0) 241 9671 0 [email protected], www.kisters.de

KISTERS combines control systems and Asset Management into an overall software package for technical and commercial wind farm operation

Kleinwindkraft-PortalHardenbergstraße 10, 44866 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 2327 960 [email protected], www.klein-windkraftanlagen.com

The web portal publishes information on small wind turbines (< 100 kW) for distributed power generation. Newsletter and market survey.

Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative EnergienSoester Str. 13, 48155 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.iwr-institut.de

For 30 years, renewable energy has now been our main focus, since 1995 under the trademark IWR. Core competences: economic & policy counselling, economic research, networks and media

Lorenz Kommunikation Veilchenweg 10, 41516 Grevenbroich, Tel.: +49 (0) 2182 57 87 [email protected], www.lorenz-kommunikation.de

Press and PR work, Investor Relations, event management, coaching, business consulting, market analyses

MAIBACH VuS GmbH Am Bahnhof 7, 46342 Velen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2863 381871 [email protected], www.bauwatchbausicherung.de

BauWatch, video surveillance of construction sites, site security, mobile video surveillance, theft/vandalism security, rentals

Manfred Schleuter ElektrotechnikermeisterIm Neuen Esch 24a, 46395 Bocholt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2871 [email protected], www.energieberatung-westmuensterland.de

Addresses and presentations • Planning • Appraisals • Project development

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OK! Security GbR David-Hansemann-Straße 18, 52531 Übach-Palenberg, Tel.: +49 (0) 2451 486 74 [email protected], www.ok-security.de

Construction, operational and repowering surveillance • Security patrols and alarm response • Installation and maintenance of technological components

Solarthemen – Guido Bröer & Andreas Witt GbR Bültestraße 85, 32584 Löhne, Tel.: +49 (0) 5731 [email protected], www.solarthemen.de, www.energiekommune.info, www.eejobs.de

Journals and media services for the renewable energy industry.

Stanton Chase Emanuel-Leutze-Straße 17, 40547 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 954980 [email protected], www.stantonchase.com

Recruitment consulting: Filling of managerial and specialist engineering positions Contact: Roland Siegert

STEAG Energy Services GmbH Rüttenscheider Straße 1–3, 45128 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 801 [email protected], www.steag-energyservices.com/kompetenzen.html

Studies, planning, Quality Assurance, construction supervision of wind farms, plus analysis of operating data using neuronal networks and statistical methods

TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbHAm Grauen Stein, 51105 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 40 [email protected], www.tuv.com

TÜV Rheinland is DAkkS accredited for type and component certification in acc. with IEC 61400-22. View our services at: www.tuv.com

TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbH Heinz-Trökes-Straße 128, 47259 Duisburg, Tel.: +49 (0) 203 54 52 [email protected], www.tuev-sued.de

Approval of wind energy systems and components for the USA and Canada • Stationary energy storage systems • Approval of control cabinet • Approval of machinery

Volkmann Consult Joachimstraße 53, 40547 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 172 24 23 [email protected], www.volkmann-consult.de

Project Management, Interim Management

windtest grevenbroich gmbh Frimmersdorfer Straße 73a, 41517 Grevenbroich, Tel.: +49 (0) 2181 [email protected], www.windtest-nrw.de

Accredited measurements: Power curve, loads, noise, grid integration, site assessment: yield report, wind profiles, shadow cast, test-field operator.

ZENIT GmbH Bismarckstraße 28, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Tel.: +49 (0) 208 [email protected], www.zenit.de

ZENIT supports wind energy sector companies and others in innovation and internationalisation activities on behalf of the EU, the federal government and the German states.

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Transport and logistics

BARTH+CO SPEDITION GMBH & CO KGSiemensstraße 21, 41542 Dormagen, Tel.: +49 (0)2133 479-243 [email protected], www.barth-co.com

Land-based transportation and construction-site logistics

Demag Cranes & Components GmbHRuhrstraße 28, 58300 Wetter (Ruhr), Tel.: +49 (0) 2335 [email protected], www.demagcranes.de

Industrial cranes, crane components, lifting equipment, chain hoists, rope winches, KBK lightweight crane systems and lifting solutions for wind industry applications.

Ko-Mats GmbHWienerstraße 39, 48455 Gildehaus-Bad Bentheim, Tel.: +49 (0)5924 299 [email protected], www.ko-mats.de

Rental and sale of excavator and crane outrigger support mats for all aspects of heavy-load management and energy-transmission engineering.

Spedition Gregor SchruddeHalterner Straße 195, 46284 Dorsten, Tel.: +49 (0)2362 [email protected], www.spedition-schrudde.de

Telesattel, semi-low loaders, low-loaders, approval procedures, support of oversize-load movements, route surveys, project logistics

Trendelkamp Technologie GmbH Bahnhofstraße 43, 48356 Nordwalde, Tel.: +49 (0)25739250 [email protected], www.trendelkamp.com

Maintenance Lifts • Specialist welding company in accordance with DIN EN 1090 • ISO 9001:2008 certified • branch in the USA

Bergische Universität Wuppertal Lehrstuhl für Elektr. Energieversorgungstechnik, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Zdrallek Rainer-Gruenter-Straße 21, 42119 Wuppertal, Tel: +49 (0) 202 439-1976 [email protected], www.eev.uni-wuppertal.de

Planning and reliability-analyses of on-shore and off-shore wind farm networks

Fachhochschule KölnBetzdorferstraße 2, 50679 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 8275 [email protected], www.f07.fh-koeln.de/einrichtungen/iet/labore/erneuerbare_energien/

We tackle grid integration of renewable energy sources, including: Energy storage • Load management • Grid calculations and grid simulation

Fachhochschule Münster Stegerwaldstraße 39, 48565 Steinfurt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2551 [email protected], https://www.fh-muenster.de/fb4/personen/vennemann/vennemann_peter.php

Wind power is one of our teaching and research fields. Degree theses examine technical and energy-indus-try questions.

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Grantham-Allee 20, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Tel.: +49 (0) 2241 [email protected], www.fb03.h-bonn-rhein-sieg.de

Prof. Dr. Katharina Seuser: “Acceptance of wind energy in NRW” research project.

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Zukunftskreis SteinfurtServicestelle Windenergie

ie3 Institut für Energiesysteme, Energiewirtschaft und Energieeffizienz Emil-Figge-Straße 70, 44227 Dortmund, Tel.: +49 (0) 231 755-2396 [email protected], www.ie3.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de

The institute is one of the leading German higher education institutes in the field of energy systems, energy efficiency and energy economy with the focus on electrical networks.

LAG Steinfurter Land e.V. – Servicestelle Windenergie des Kreises SteinfurtTecklenburger Straße 10, 48565 Steinfurt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2551 692169 [email protected], www.agenda21.kreis-steinfurt.de

The wind energy service point supports the expansion of wind energy in Steinfurt County and all participa-ting individuals and organisations.

Landwirtschaftskammer NRW Nevinghoff 40, 48147 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.landwirtschaftskammer.de

Advisory services for site owners • Project coordination

Netzwerk WindWest Heiliggeistplatz 2, 48431 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 800 66 [email protected], www.wind-west.de

Interdisciplinary networking of all participants in the wind energy value chain in northern NRW and western Lower Saxony.

Rheinisch-Westfälischer Genossenschaftsverband e.V.Mecklenbecker Straße 235 – 239, 48163 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.rwgv.de

Advisory services for the foundation of energy cooperatives • Economic assessment • Legal advice • Tax consulting • Further training • Representation of interests

VDMA NRW Grafenberger Allee 125, 40237 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 68 77 48 [email protected], nrw.vdma.org

Networking/Representation of interests for manufacturers of systems, components and production tech-nology for wind turbines via VDMA AG Windindustrie.

VGB PowerTech e.V. Klinkestraße 27 – 31, 45136 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 8128-238 [email protected], www.vgb.org

Establishment, exchange and transfer of technical know-how • Coordination of technical and operational standards • Identification of R&D activities

ABB AG TransformatorenLohfelderstraße 19-21, 53604 Bad Honnef, Tel.: +49 (0) 2224 [email protected], www.abb.de/transformatoren

Large power transformers • Industrial transformers • Phase shifting transformers • All products above with TrafoStarTM technology • Installation and commissioning

AEG Power Solutions GmbHEmil-Siepmann-Straße 32, 59581 Warstein-Belecke, Tel.: +49 (0) 2902 763 [email protected], www.aegps.com

Manufacturer of high-performance uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), industrial chargers, DC systems and converters • Wind energy: Power back-up for blade pitch control


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Brüel & Kjaer Vibro GmbH Central Sales Office, Sibyllastraße 9, 45136 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 201 89432 90 [email protected], www.bkvibro.com

High-performance Condition Monitoring system, available as client-owned stand-alone solution or including centralized surveillance and diagnostics

DSL-electronic GmbH Textilstraße 2, 41751 Viersen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2162 40025 [email protected], www.dsl-electronic.de

Mains system protection, frequency and voltage monitoring, synchronisers, measured-data transducers, chargers, arc-protection

FRABA POSITALCarlswerkstraße 13c, 51063 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 [email protected], www.posital.com

absolute and incremental IXARC rotary encoders • TILTIX inclinometers • LINARIX draw wire sensors • accessories

GWU-Umwelttechnik GmbH Bonner Ring 9, 50374 Erftstadt, Tel.: +49 (0) 2235 955220 [email protected], www.gwu-group.de

Meteorological systems • Wind profile measurement: LiDAR and SoDAR • Consulting, installation, technical support and system monitoring

HANNING & KAHL GmbH & Co KG Rudolf-Diesel-Straße 6, 33813 Oerlinghausen, Tel.: +49 (0) 5202 707-600 [email protected], www.hanning-kahl.com

Electro-mechanical brake system for wind turbines

HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KGSimeonscarré 1, 32427 Minden, Tel.: +49 (0) 571 [email protected], www.harting.de

Connectors • Ethernet Components • Current sensors • RFID-Systems • Cable Harnessing • Control cabinets • Customised Solutions

Isoblock Schaltanlagen GmbH & Co KGAnton-Storch-Straße 17, 49080 Osnabrück, Tel.: +49 (0) 541 [email protected], www.isoblock.de

Low-voltage switchgear systems: Grid and system protection for photovoltaics systems • Medium-voltage switch-gear systems: Grid connection for regenerative energy sources, Medium-voltage systems 10 kV and 20 kV

KEB – Karl E. Brinkmann GmbH Försterweg 36–38, 32683 Barntrup, Tel.: +49 (0) 5263 [email protected], www.keb.de

Electrical and mechanical solutions for pitch and yaw systems • KEB COMBIVERT drive units • KEB COM-BISTOP brake systems • KEB PITCH brake motors

MoogMax-Born-Straße 1, 59423 Unna, Tel.: +49 (0) 2303 5937 [email protected], www.moog.de/wind

Moog’s product range for wind energy includes pitch systems, slip-ring solutions, blade sensing systems and expert services.

Nexans Deutschland GmbH Bonnenbroicher Straße 2–14, 41238 Mönchengladbach, Tel.: +49 (0) 2166 [email protected], www.nexans.de

Nexans is a leading cable manufacturer and provides a comprehensive range of high-performance cables, systems and components for the energy sector.

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PINTSCH ABEN B.V.Hünxer Straße 149, 46537 Dinslaken, Tel.: +49 (0) 2064 [email protected], www.pintschaben.com

More then 150 years of experience have made PINTSCH ABEN a specialist in marine transport technology and aviation navigation and warning lights.

REO AGBrühlerstraße 100, 42657 Solingen, Tel.: +49 (0) [email protected], www.reo.de

REO is a manufacturer of chokes, transformers, mains filters and damping resistors for wind power conver-ters. More information: www.reo.de

Weidmüller Klingenbergstraße 16 , 32758 Detmold, Tel.: +49 (0) 5231 14 [email protected], www.weidmueller.com

Industrial Ethernet, power distribution, lightning and anti-spike protection, signal processing, sensor/actu-ator interfacing, modular terminals, plug-type connectors

ATS Construction GmbH NL Essen Zukunfts Zentrum Zollverein, Triple-Z, Katernberger Straße 107, 45327 Essen, Tel.: +49 (0) 6732 9657 2810 [email protected], www.ats-construction.de

The ATS tower is the tower solution for WEIs with high spinner heights. The range is rounded off by foundation construction and installation of the complete system.

EUROPIPE GmbHPilgerstraße 2, 45473 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Tel.: +49 (0) 208 976 [email protected], www.europipe.com

Manufacturer of welded large-diameter pipes • World’s greatest capacity • Shareholders guarantee plate capacity and plate supply

Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KGAm Heller 1, 57250 Netphen-Werthenbach, Tel.: +49 (0) 2737 [email protected], www.graebener-maschinentechnik.de

Manufacturer of crimping and bending machines, plate-edge milling machines and circumferential/ longitudinal-weld milling machines for preparation for narrow-gap welding.

Max Bögl Wind AGStolberger Straße 200, 50933 Köln, Tel.: +49 (0) 221 98 54 48-13777 [email protected], www.max-boegl.de

Max Bögl hybrid tower system • Consulting, project development • Turnkey construction of wind farms • Self-jacking tower crane • Road, path and foundation construction

Modellbau Nachtigall GmbH Holtkamp 3, 46414 Rhede, Tel.: +49 (0) 2872 980651 [email protected], www.modell-formenbau.de

Patterns and moulds for the Wind-power industry • Foundry patterns • Rotor-blade patterns • Nacelle patterns • Materials: polystyrene, wood, epoxy compounds, aluminium

Oevermann Hochbau GmbH Robert-Bosch-Straße 7–9, 48153 Münster, Tel.: +49 (0) 251 [email protected], www.oevermann.com

Hybrid towers and foundations for wind energy converters: planning and draft development • structural analysis ready for certification • execution of construction work


Supplier of large components

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Siegthalerfabrik GmbH Siegtalstraße 32–34, 57080 Siegen, Tel.: +49 (0) 271 [email protected], www.siegthaler.de

Tower flanges, azimuth brake disks and rings up to 7000mm diameter, machining of customers’ components up to max. 50t.

Siempelkamp Gießerei GmbH Siempelkampstraße 45, 47803 Krefeld, Tel.: +49 (0) 2151 894 [email protected], www.siempelkamp.com

World’s largest hand-moulding foundry for hand-moulded formed large castings made of nodular cast iron up to 320 t piece weight.

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG – Geschäftseinheit Grobblech Mannesmannstraße Tor 9, 47259 Duisburg, Tel.: +49 (0) 203 [email protected], http://grobblech.thyssenkrupp-steel-europe.com

Four-high mill plates are used as material for wind energy towers; in the offshore sector, in particular, also for foundation structures, e.g. jack-up rigs and jackets.

3M Deutschland GmbHCarl-Schurz-Straße 1, 41453 Neuss, Tel.: +49 (0) 2131144140 [email protected], www.mmm.com/wind

3M offers innovative coatings, tapes, adhesives as well as electrical solutions to increase the performance and reliability of wind turbines.

AS Tech Industrie- und Spannhydraulik GmbHLeopold-Hoesch-Straße 5 –7, 52511 Geilenkirchen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2451 48 20 [email protected], www.astech-hydraulik.com

Bolt tensioning devices, hydraulic nuts, mechanical bolt tensioning devices, power units, measuring, monitoring and documentation systems, special-purpose hydraulics

August Friedberg GmbHAchternbergstraße 38a, 45884 Gelsenkirchen, Tel.: +49 (0) 209 9132 [email protected], www.august-friedberg.com

Fasteners for Wind power stations • HV tower bolt sets up to M72 • Studs • Rotor blade connection systems • Application Engineering and Development Partnership

Bosch Rexroth AG Mannesmannstraße, 58455 Witten, Tel.: +49 (0) 2302 877 516 [email protected], www.boschrexroth.com/windenergy

Gearboxes, hydraulic systems and condition monitoring systems, services: Inspection, maintenance, repairs, spares and exchange gearboxes

BRAUER Maschinentechnik AGRaiffeisenring 25, 46395 Bocholt, Tel: +49 (0)2871 7033 [email protected], www.brauer-getriebe.de

Repair and optimisation of all makes and sizes of wind energy gearboxes Numerous reconditioned gearboxes available

DELIMON GmbH Arminstraße 15, 40227 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 7774 [email protected], www.bijurdelimon.com

Central lubrication systems, pumps, distributors, lubricating pinions. Pre-assembled systems, either filled or unfilled. Test laboratory, production locations around the world.

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Dörken MKS-Systeme GmnH & Co. KGWetterstraße 58, 58313 Herdecke, Tel.: +49 (0) 2330 63 [email protected], www.doerken-mks.de

Fastening elements require high performing corrosion protection and optimized assembly characteristics: DELTA-MKS® zinc flake systems are the preferred solution.

Dorstener Antriebstechnik GmbH Hüttenstraße 1, 46284 Dorsten, Tel.: +49 (0) 2362 67 [email protected], www.dorstener.de

Main gearbox • Pitch gearbox • Yaw gearbox

Eickhoff Antriebstechnik GmbH Hunscheidtstraße 176, 44789 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 234 [email protected], www.eickhoff-bochum.de

Wind-Power Gearboxes • Industrial Gearboxes • Special Gearboxes and Accessories • Service • 3D Lifting Rings • E-GOMS On-Line Diagnostics System

EM Brake Systems AGZur Brinke 14, 33758 Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock, Tel.: +49 (0) 5207 [email protected], www.emb-systems.com

Electromechanical rotor brakes • Electromechanical rotor locks • Electromechanical azimuth brakes

Fuchs Schraubenwerk GmbHBismarckstraße 24, 57076 Siegen, Tel.: +49 (0) 271 [email protected], www.fuchs-schrauben.de

Development, production and supply of cold formed parts, specialty and standard fasteners for wind energy, automotive and steel construction industry.

GEDORE Tool Center GmbH & Co. KGRemscheider Straße 149, 42899 Remscheid, Tel.: +49 (0) 2191 596900 [email protected], www.gedore.com

All types of manual tools, up to and including complete equipping

Henkel AG & Co. KGaAHenkelstraße 67, 40191 Düsseldorf, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 7970 [email protected], www.henkel.de

Wide range of heavy-duty adhesive and sealing materials: UV- and weather-resistant seals for steel tower segments, anaerobic systems to secure bolts.

Jahnel-Kestermann Getriebewerke GmbHHunscheidtstraße 116, 44789 Bochum, Tel.: +49 (0) 234 [email protected], www.jake-gear.com

Design and manufacture of wind gearing systems for the 600 KW to 6,500 KW output range Global wind power gearing services for own and third-party products

KTR Kupplungstechnik GmbH Rodder Damm 170, 48432 Rheine, Tel.: +49 (0) 5971 [email protected], www.ktr.com

RADEX®-N shaft couplings, KTR-STOP® YAW brakes and rotor brakes, Rotor-Lock, MMC cooling systems, hydraulic components, DATAFLEX® torque measuring systems

Laumann GmbH & Co. KGRodder Straße 42, 48477 Hörstel-Bevergern, Tel.: +49 (0) 5459 80 19 0 [email protected], www.h-laumann.de

Our capabilities in acc. with DIN ISO 9001 2008 • Module production • Welding technology, DIN 18800 7C • Design and prototype construction • CNC laser cuttin


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Lincoln GmbHNeuenhausplatz 7, 40699 Erkrath, Tel.: +49 (0) 211 20 99 62 [email protected], www.lincolnindustrial.de

Lincoln is a world leading manufacturer of automatic lubrication systems for the industry. Lincoln is an SKF Group Brand.

MBH Maschinenbau & Blechtechnik GmbH Zeppelinstraße 7, 49479 Ibbenbüren, Tel.: +49 (0) 5459 9309-0 [email protected], www.mbh-hassink.de

Development and design • CNC sheet and plate machining • Mechanical and plant engineering • Fitting and welding shop • Robot welding

Moventas GmbHOtto-Hahn-Straße 55, 42369 Wuppertal, Tel.: +49 (0) 202 [email protected], www.moventas.com

Manufacturer of gearing systems for wind energy installations. Service for all manufacturer of wind gearboxes: Repair, maintenance, upgrades, field service.

PLARAD Maschinenfabrik Wagner GmbH & CO. KGBirrenbachshöhe, 53804 Much, Tel.: +49 (0) 2245 [email protected], www.plarad.com

Precision-torque screwing technology, 300 to 150,000 Nm. Development, installation, maintenance, repair, calibration, training, analysis and consulting.

ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde GmbH Tremoniastraße 5–11, 44137 Dortmund, Tel: +49 (0) 231 [email protected], www.thyssenkrupp-rotheerde.com

Slewing bearings: pitch, yaw, rotor bearings; seamless rolled rings for wind turbine towers, foundation sections, gearboxes, shaft/hub connections, brake disks

Tractel Greifzug GmbH Scheidtbachstraße 19 – 21, 51469 Bergisch Gladbach, Tel.: +49 (0) 2202 1004 0 [email protected], www.tractel.com

Service lifts, Rotor blade inspection platforms, TRACTELIFT™ Climbing aid for vertical ladders, FABA™ ladders with integrated fall arrest device, PPE, Hoists for any wire rope length from 100 kg to 3 tons.

Walter Stauffenberg GmbH & Co. KGIm Ehrenfeld 4, 58791 Werdohl, Tel.: +49 (0) 23 92 916 [email protected], www.stauff.com

Cable-fixing systems and fluid-dynamics components for wind energy applications.

WALTHER-PRÄZISION, Carl Kurt Walther GmbH & Co. KG Westfalenstraße 2, 42781 Haan, Tel.: +49 (0) 2129 [email protected], www.walther-praezision.de

Mono-couplings, multi-couplings and docking systems for rational connection and disconnection of fluid and electrical lines.

Wheelabrator Group GmbHHeinrich-Schlick-Straße 2, 48629 Metelen, Tel.: +49 (0) 2556 88 [email protected], www.noricangroup.com

Compressed air and wheelblast systems for systematic treatment of metal surfaces for e.g. derusting, descaling, hardening.

Winergy (Siemens AG)Am Industriepark 2, 46562 Voerde, Tel.: +49 (0) 2871 [email protected], www.winergy-group.com

Gearing-system manufacturer for wind turbines • Service

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3M Deutschland GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 56

ABB Supplier of electrical and electronic components 53

AEG Power Solutions GmbH Supplier of electrical and electronic components 53

airwerk GmbH Other services 48

AREGUS Services Other services 48

AS Tech Industrie- und Spannhydraulik GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 56

ash Projekte Other services 49

ATS Construction GmbH NL Essen Supplier of large components 55

August Friedberg GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 56

BARTH+CO SPEDITION GMBH & CO KG Transport and logistics 52

BBB Umwelttechnik GmbH Planning 46

BBWind Projektberatungsgesellschaft mbH Planning 46

Bergische Universität Wuppertal Associations and public institutions 52

BEW Bildungszentrum für die Entsorgungs- und Wasserwirtschaft GmbH

Initial and further training 40

BMR energy solutions GmbH Planning 46

Bosch Rexroth AG Supplier of mechanical components 56

BRAUER Maschinentechnik AG Supplier of mechanical components 56

BRAUN Windturbinen GmbH Manufacturer 44

Brüel & Kjaer Vibro GmbH – Central Sales Office Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Brunel Car Synergies GmbH Other services 49

Bühler Technologies GmbH Manufacturer 45

Center for Wind Power Drives (CWD) der RWTH Aachen Other services 49

con-SEPT GmbH Manufacturer 45

CPC Germania Planning 46

DAL Structured Finance GmbH Finance & Legal 42

DELIMON GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 56

Demag Cranes & Components GmbH Transport and logistics 52

Deutsche Messe/Hannover, Büro NRW Other services 49

Deutsche Windtechnik AG Operation and service 40

DMT GmbH & Co.KG Other services 49

doaro energie UG haftungsbeschränkt Planning 46

Dörken MKS-Systeme GmnH & Co. KG Supplier of mechanical components 57

Dorstener Antriebstechnik GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

Dortmunder Energie- und Wasserversorgung GmbH (DEW21) Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

Dr. Grauthoff – Unternehmensberatung für Energie und Umwelt Assessors 43

DSL-electronic GmbH Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

E+K Wind OWL GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 41

EcofinConcept GmbH Other services 49

EFTAS Fernerkundung Technologietransfer GmbH Other services 49

Eickhoff Antriebstechnik GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

ELE-Scholven-Wind GmbH Other services 49

EM Brake Systems AG Supplier of mechanical components 57

Energiekontor AG Planning 46

Engemann & Partner, Rechtsanwälte und Notare Finance & Legal 42

enveco GmbH Assessors 43

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ENVIRONMENT – Planningsgemeinschaft Stadt und Umwelt Assessors 43

ENVISYS GmbH & Co. KG c/o Lisa Schöffel M.A. Other services 49

Eovent GmbH Manufacturer 45

EPLAN Software & Service GmbH & Co. KG Planning 46

Erneuerbare Energien Gmbh Dipl.-Ing. Emmerich Planning 46

EurA Consult AG Other services 49

EUROPIPE GmbH Supplier of large components 55

EuroWind GmbH Assessors 43

Fachhochschule Köln Associations and public institutions 52

Fachhochschule Münster Associations and public institutions 52

FGH GmbH Other services 50

FRABA POSITAL Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Fuchs Schraubenwerk GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

GE Wind Energy GmbH Manufacturer 45

GEDORE Tool Center GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of mechanical components 57

GLS Bank Initial and further training 40

Gothaer Allgemeine Versicherung AG Other services 50

Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of large components 55

Grontmij GmbH Assessors 43

GWS Tech Service GmbH Operation and service 41

GWU-Umwelttechnik GmbH Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

HANNING & KAHL GmbH & Co KG Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Hansa Luftbild AG Other services 50

HARTING Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Haus der Technik Initial and further training 40

Henkel G & Co. KGaA Zulieferer mechanische Komponenten 57

Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg Associations and public institutions 52

Hofer & Pautz GbR Planning 46

HUSUM Wind Other services 50

ie3 Institut für Energiesysteme, Energiewirtschaft und Energieeffizienz

Associations and public institutions 53

Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien Other services 50

IPEK energy GmbH Planning 46

Isoblock Schaltanlagen GmbH & Co KG Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Jahnel-Kestermann Getriebewerke GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

juwi Energieprojekte GmbH Planning 47

Kanzlei Busmann Finance & Legal 42

KEB – Karl E. Brinkmann GmbH Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Kenersys Europe GmbH Manufacturer 45

KISTERS AG Other services 50

Kleinwindkraft-Portal Other services 50

Ko-Mats GmbH Transport and logistics 52

Kohr Windenergie Planning 47

Kortemeier Brokmann Landschaftsarchitekten GmbH Assessors 44

KÖTTER Consulting Engineers Assessors 44

KRAFTWERKSSCHULE E.V. Initial and further training 40

Kreissparkasse Köln Finance & Legal 43

KTB GmbH Technologie-Beratung und -Planning Planning 47

KTR Kupplungstechnik GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

LAG Steinfurter Land e.V. – Servicestelle Windenergie des Kreises Steinfurt

Associations and public institutions 53


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Land + Wind Umweltplanung Planning 47

Landschaftsplanungsbüro Seling Assessors 44

Landwirtschaftskammer NRW Associations and public institutions 53

Laumann GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of mechanical components 57

Lincoln GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 58

Lorenz Kommunikation Other services 50

MAIBACH VuS GmbH Other services 50

Manfred Schleuter Elektrotechnikermeister Other services 50

Marsh GmbH Finance & Legal 43

Max Bögl Wind AG Supplier of large components 55

MBH Maschinenbau & Blechtechnik GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

melius-energie GmbH Planning 47

Modellbau Nachtigall GmbH Supplier of large components 55

momac GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 41

Moog Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Moventas GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 57

Murphy & Spitz Green Energy AG Operation and service 41

N·E·ST Neue Energie Steinfurt GmbH Planning 47

Netzwerk WindWest Associations and public institutions 53

NEUHÄUSER Windtec GmbH Manufacturer 45

Nexans Deutschland GmbH Supplier of electrical and electronic components 54

Nheolis Manufacturer 45

Nordex Energy GmbH Manufacturer 45

NRW.BANK Finance & Legal 43

Oevermann Hochbau GmbH Supplier of large components 55

OK! Security GbR Other services 51

öKon Landschaftsplanung GmbH Planning 47

Ökoplan – Bredemann, Fehrmann, Hemmer und Kordges Assessors 44

Osborne Clarke Finance & Legal 43

Ostwind Gruppe Planning 47

PINTSCH ABEN B.V. Supplier of electrical and electronic components 55

PLARAD Maschinenfabrik Wagner GmbH & CO. KG Supplier of mechanical components 58

PNE WIND AG Planning 47

Prowind GmbH Planning 47

psm Nature Power Service & Management GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 41

reko GmbH & Co. KG Assessors 44

REO AG Supplier of electrical and electronic components 55

REWITEC GmbH – Büro NRW Operation and service 41

Rheinisch-Westfälischer Genossenschaftsverband e. V. Associations and public institutions 53

Ruthmann GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 41

RWE Netzservice GmbH Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

Siegthalerfabrik GmbH Supplier of large components 56

Siempelkamp Gießerei GmbH Supplier of large components 56

SL NaturEnergie Gruppe Planning 48

Solarthemen – Guido Bröer & Andreas Witt GbR Other services 51

SOLvent GmbH Assessors 44

Spedition Gregor Schrudde Transport and logistics 52

Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

Stadtwerke Münster GmbH Planning 48

Stanton Chase Other services 51


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STEAG Energy Services GmbH Other services 51

STEAG New Energies GmbH Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

superwind GmbH Manufacturer 45

TCP Prüftechnik GmbH Assessors 44

ThyssenKrupp Rothe Erde GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 58

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG – Geschäftseinheit Grobblech Supplier of large components 56

Tractel Greifzug GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 58

Trendelkamp Technologie GmbH Transport and logistics 52

Trianel GmbH Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

Triflex GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 41

TÜV NORD SysTec GMBH & Co. KG Assessors 44

TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH Other services 51

TÜV SÜD Product Service GmbH Other services 51

UE Systems Deutschland Operation and service 41

Vattenfall Europe Sales GmbH Energy utility and supplier of green electricity 42

VDI Wissensforum GmbH Initial and further training 40

VDMA NRW Associations and public institutions 53

Vestas Deutschland GmbH Niederlassung Osnabrück Manufacturer 45

VGB PowerTech e.V. Associations and public institutions 53

Volkmann Consult Other services 51

Walter Stauffenberg GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of mechanical components 58

WALTHER-PRÄZISION, Carl Kurt Walther GmbH & Co. KG Supplier of mechanical components 41

WAY TO WIND GmbH & Co. KG Operation and service 55

Weidmüller Supplier of electrical and electronic components 48

WES energy GmbH Planning 58

Wheelabrator Group GmbH Supplier of mechanical components 58

windConsultant – Annette Nüsslein Initial and further training 40

windtest grevenbroich gmbh Other services 51

Winergy (Siemens AG) Supplier of mechanical components 58

Wolters Partner Architekten & Stadtplaner Planning 48

wpd onshore GmbH & Co. KG Planning 48

WWK Partnerschaft für Umweltplanung Planning 48

ZENIT GmbH Other services 51

ZERNA Baumanagement GmbH Planning 48

February E-World – Energy & Water, Messe Essen Exhibition CentreApril Hanover Trade FairJune NRW Wind Energy Industry DaySeptember WindEnergy Hamburg (2014)September HUSUM Wind (2015)October Wind-Updates.NRW – Wind Power Network NRW annual conferenceNovember NRW Wind Energy Days, Bad DriburgSpring and autumn NRW WindForums Spring Special Energy Show – Wind Power, Haus Düsse, Bad Sassendorf


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Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection:www.umwelt.nrw.de

■■ Windenergieerlass vom 11.07.2011■■ Leitfaden Rahmenbedingungen für Windenergieanlagen auf Waldflächen in Nordrhein-Westfalen (2012)■■ EnergieDaten.NRW 2012

NRW State Environment Agency:www.lanuv.nrw.de

■■ Potenzialstudie Erneuerbare Energien NRW. Teil 1 – Windenergie. LANUV-Fachbericht 40 (2012)■■ Leitfaden Umsetzung des Arten- und Habitatschutzes bei der Planung und Genehmigung von

Windenergieanlagen in Nordrhein-Westfalen (2013)■■ EnergieAtlas.NRW: www.energieatlas.nrw.de

German Wind Energy Association (BWE):www.wind-energie.de

■■ Potenzial der Windenergienutzung an Land (2011)■■ Branchenreport “Windindustrie in Deutschland 2013”

German Local Authorities Confederation: www.dstgb.de

■■ Kommunale Handlungsmöglichkeiten beim Ausbau der Windenergie – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Repowering (2012)

Deutsche WindGuard GmbH:www.umwelt.nrw.de/klima

■■ Zielsetzung bis 2020 für die Windenergieentwicklung in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Bedeutung dieser Ziele für den Windenergieausbau (2011)

IWR Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry:www.iwr.de

■■ Studien zur Regenerativen Energiewirtschaft■■ Repowering in NRW 2012 – Stand und Perspektiven – Zwischenbericht, Internationales Wirtschaftsforum

Erneuerbare Energien, Münster, April 2013, www.windkraft.nrw.de

Arnsberg Regional Government:

■■ Leitlinien Regionalplan Arnsberg. Sachlicher Teilabschnitt “Energie”■■ www.soest.de/03leben_wohnen/

German Wind Energy Institutewww.dewi.de

Further reading


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