UKA, Denker Wulf And Wpd: Nordex Receives Major Orders For Wind Turbines With a Capacity of 740 MW in Germany
Hamburg, Germany - Following the Federal Network Agency's wind energy tenders with high award volumes in 2023 and 2024, numerous wind projects in Germany are now about to be realized. The wind turbine manufacturer Nordex can benefit from this and reports three large orders from Germany. The Nordex share rises.
UKA orders 80 Nordex wind turbines with a wind power output of 540 MW
The wind and solar farm developer UKA (Umweltgerechte Kraftanlagen GmbH & Co. KG) ordered 80 Delta4000 turbines with a total capacity of 540 MW from the Nordex Group in December 2024. According to Nordex, the company has received orders for 15 UKA wind energy projects in six federal states with different turbine types, 64 turbines of the 6 MW class (N175/6.X) alone.
One of the largest orders was for nine N175/6.X turbines and three N149/5.X turbines for the 78 MW Herzberg-Granzin wind farm in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
“This order increases the project volume that UKA currently has in the construction phase with Nordex in Germany to a total of 1,070 MW. This is a sign of confidence in the quality of Nordex's products and management,” says Stefan Kath, Managing Director of the UKA Group.
Denker Wulf awards Nordex an order for 148 MW of wind power capacity
The onshore wind farm developer Denker Wulf has ordered 25 wind turbines of the Delta4000 series from the Nordex Group for seven projects. The wind farms Dörphof-Thumby, Owschlag, Hohenaspe, Ottenbüttel, Galmsbüll-Norderhof, Quarnbek-Erweiterung and Bimöhlen-Hasenmoor are all being built in Schleswig-Holstein. From the beginning of 2026, the Nordex Group will supply and install eight N163/6.X turbines (6 MW class), twelve N149/5.X and five N133/4800 turbines for the projects.
Karsten Brüggemann, Vice President Region Central of the Nordex Group: “Eleven orders for 200 MW in 2024 alone are proof that in DenkerWulf we have a long-standing customer who repeatedly trusts our versatile turbine technology.”
Wpd orders Nordex wind turbines with a capacity of 50 MW
At the end of 2024, Wpd, one of the world's leading developers and operators (IRPP) of wind and solar farms, ordered nine Delta4000 series turbines from the Nordex Group for three projects in Germany. The orders from the long-standing Nordex customer comprise one N149/4.X turbine for the Kalletal wind farm in North Rhine-Westphalia, four N149/5.X turbines for the Diepholzer Bruch wind farm in Lower Saxony and also four N149/5.X turbines for the Gnutz wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein. The turbines for the projects will be delivered and installed in 2025.
“We are delighted to be able to continue to build on the good cooperation with Nordex,” says Dr. Hartmut Brösamle, Managing Director of wpd GmbH. “In our important German home market, we are increasingly feeling the positive effects of the political decisions and will continue to work with Nordex to advance important projects that will help us achieve our national climate targets”, he adds.
Current tenders by the Federal Network Agency drive high wind energy expansion in 2025/26
In September 2022, the German Federal Government initiated the amendment to the spatial planning law and other legislative changes (including environmental impact assessments for wind farms), which also led to a simplification of the approval process for wind farms. Due to the faster approval of wind farm projects, significantly more wind farms were then able to participate in the tenders of the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA).
As a result, the wind energy awards in the Federal Network Agency's tenders climbed from 6,377 MW (2023) to 10,996 MW of wind power capacity in 2024. These projects will be implemented in the next two years in particular.
Source: IWR Online, Jan 01 2025