RWE Innogy erects wind farm in Juchen and Horup with most powerful REpower onshore systems
Yesterday, RWE Innogy and REpower signed the contracts for the delivery of three onshore wind turbines of the 3 MW class. They are the most powerful onshore wind power systems of the plant manufacturer, which will be erected in the planned wind farm at Juchen in the Rhenish mining area and in the repowering project at Horup in Schleswig-Holstein.
- (1888PressRelease) March 31, 2012 - RWE Innogy will install two of the REpower turbines in the Rhein-Kreis district of Neuss in the municipality of Jüchen. The Jüchen wind farm is being built on a reclaimed area of RWE Power's Garzweiler opencast mine and is to have an installed capacity of over 13 megawatts (MW) after its completion. This is sufficient to produce over 32 million kilowatt-hours of environment-friendly electricity per year. This output is enough to supply the equivalent of 9,300 residential households annually. The cooperation partner BMR Windenergie with which RWE Innogy has developed the Jüchen wind farm since 2009, is going to build and operate two of the four wind power systems. Following the Titz wind farm, which is already under construction with its capacity of over 20 MW, Jüchen is the second project in the Rhenish mining area, which this cooperation has taken to the construction stage.
The third 3.4M104 turbine will be deployed in RWE Innogy's Hörup wind farm in Schleswig-Holstein. The four wind power systems currently in operation will be demolished as part of a repowering project and be replaced by three new more powerful systems. This means that the current wind farm will be reduced from four to three wind power systems, while its installed capacity will be increased from two to eight megawatts at the same time. The new capacity will suffice to produce approx. 17 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually to supply over 4,800 residential households with environmentally benign energy. At Hörup, RWE Innogy is starting its second repowering project in Germany. The Süderdeich wind farm has been in operation since the end of 2011 with about 9 MW instead of previously 4 MW.
The necessary construction permits have been obtained for both wind farms so that the construction can start as scheduled in the second quarter of 2012 and the wind power systems can be commissioned at the end of the year provided the project is progressing as planned.
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