Wind farms in Schipkau

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The wind farms in Schipkau are several wind farms on the area of ​​the former lignite opencast mines Klettwitz and Klettwitz-Nord in the Lusatian lignite district , most of which were built in the area of ​​the community of Schipkau in Brandenburg . The municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district sees itself as an innovative energy location . A total of 58 wind turbines in four individual wind farms as well as a significant individual system are currently in operation mainly in the area of ​​the former lignite opencast mine in Klettwitz , which is largely in the municipality. They have a total installed capacity of around 137 MW . One of the wind farms was at times the most powerful in Europe.

historical overview

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The Klettwitz opencast mine in the area of ​​today's wind farms was operated between 1949 and 1991, with an area of ​​5,200 hectares being excavated. From 1988 the Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine was opened up, which, due to the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR, was not operated as originally planned until 2004, which would have led to the complete devastation of Klettwitz. The renovation of the site then began by the Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft .

Today's wind farms were built from the end of the 1990s and are all operated by Ventotec GmbH in Leer (East Frisia) . The large single system at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz is owned by Energiequelle GmbH . There are four areas suitable for wind power with a total area of ​​497 hectares.

Descriptions

Klettwitz wind farm

View from the Hörlitz observation tower over the EuroSpeedway Lausitz to the Klettwitz Süd (left) and Klettwitz Nord (right) wind farms before repowering
Wind farm Klettwitz Nord in June 2013 after dismantling a V66

The Klettwitz wind farm, which consists of two parts, Klettwitz North and Klettwitz South, was built in 1999 on the northern part of the high tip of the former Klettwitz-Nord opencast mine. A total of 38 Vestas V66-1.65MW turbines were used. The turbines had a rotor diameter of 66 m, a hub height of 78 m, and a nominal output of 1.65 MW each.

On the operator side, the neighboring suitable areas Klettwitz-Nord and Klettwitz-Süd have been combined as a joint Klettwitz wind farm . With an output of approx. 63 MW, it was the most powerful European wind farm when it was opened in 1999. In 2006 the wind farm was expanded to include two Vestas V90-2MW turbines with a rotor diameter of 90 m, a hub height of 105 m, and a nominal output of 2 MW each.

In 2014/15 a repowering took place in which all old V66-1.65MW turbines were dismantled; the two later built V90-2MW remained. They were replaced by 27 Vestas V112-3.3MW wind turbines , which results in a total output of 93 MW including the two turbines taken over. Thanks to repowering, the annual yield will increase significantly despite the lower number of turbines. The operating company expects that a V112 will generate more than four times more electricity than one of the dismantled V66s, despite only doubling its nominal output. At the same time, the noise level should decrease by increasing the distance to residential buildings.

In October 2015, the 27 systems were sold to the John Laing Group . An expansion of the wind park by 15 more wind turbines with 3.3 MW each is in the approval phase. Five further wind turbines of the type V112-3.3MW were put into operation in mid-2017 as a southern extension.

Sallgast Süd wind farm

In 2004, Ventotec installed a total of 13 Vestas V80-2MW turbines , each with a rotor diameter of 80 m, a hub height of 100 m and a nominal output of 2 MW, on an area of ​​104 hectares west of the Klettwitz Nord wind farm . The total nominal output is 26 MW. The wind farm is located at the intersection of the districts of Klettwitz and the neighboring communities of Lichterfeld-Schacksdorf and Sallgast in the Elbe-Elster district . The associated suitable area has an area of ​​140 hectares.

Kostebrau wind farm

The Kostebrau wind farm was put into operation in 2000 west of the Klettwitz-Süd wind farm in the Kostebrau district , a district of Lauchhammer . It comprises 6 Vestas V66-1.65MW turbines with a total nominal output of 9.9 MW on a suitable area of ​​71 hectares.

Wind turbine EuroSpeedway Lausitz

Aerial view of the E-126 at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz

Directly at the racetrack on the former Meuro opencast mine on the A 13 , a wind power plant was planned and built by the Energiequelle company in 2011–2012 as part of the Green Lausitzring project . It was an Enercon E-126 , the most powerful wind turbine type in the world at the time of construction. The turbine has a rotor diameter of 126 m, a hub height of 135 m and a nominal output of 7.6 MW.

List of wind farms

Wind farm Wind suitability area Construction year Total
power (MW) 		Number of wind farms Plant types District Coordinates operator status
Sallgast Wind 50 Klettwitz North 2004 26th 13 Vestas V80-2MW Klettwitz
Lichterfeld
Sallgast 		51 ° 33 ′ 25 "  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 58"  E Ventotec in operation
Klettwitz BA 1 / Hochkippe (Nordfeld) 2015 36.3 11 Vestas V112-3.3MW Klettwitz
Schipkau 		51 ° 32 '52.4 "  N , 13 ° 52' 2.2"  E in operation
Klettwitz BA 1 / Bagger350 26.4 8th 51 ° 33 '8 "  N , 13 ° 51' 1.7"  E in operation
Klettwitz BA 1 / Hochkippe (Südfeld) Wind 52 Klettwitz Süd 26.4 8th 51 ° 31 '48.6 "  N , 13 ° 52' 21.5"  E in operation
2007 4th 2 Vestas V90-2MW Schipkau
Kostebrau 		51 ° 31 '28 "  N , 13 ° 52' 18.8"  E enercity renewables in operation
BA 2 / south extension 1 2017 16.5 5 Vestas V112-3.3MW Schipkau 51 ° 31 '14.2 "  N , 13 ° 51' 59.6"  E in operation
BA 2 / southern extension 2 2020 33 10 Vestas V117-3.3MW Schipkau

Cost brew

51 ° 30 '50.7 "  N , 13 ° 52' 35.2"  E under construction
Cost brew outside 2000 9.9 6th Vestas V66-1.65MW Cost brew 51 ° 32 ′ 13 ″  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 3 ″  E in operation
Lauchhammer Wind 50 Klettwitz North 2023 33 7th Vestas V150-4.2MW Cost brew 51 ° 32 '37.4 "  N , 13 ° 50' 18.9"  E in planning
EuroSpeedway Lausitz outside 2011–2012 7.6 1 Enercon E-126 Hörlitz 51 ° 32 '12 "  N , 13 ° 55' 29"  E Energy source in operation
Klettwitz North 1999 34.65 21st Vestas V66-1.65MW Klettwitz 51 ° 32 ′ 46 "  N , 13 ° 52 ′ 12"  E Ventotec dismantled
Klettwitz South 26.4 16 Klettwitz
Schipkau 		51 ° 31 ′ 45 "  N , 13 ° 52 ′ 16"  E

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ community Schipkau: Innovative Energeieort. Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
  2. ↑ DER SPIEGEL of June 17, 2000: Alternative energy: Europe's largest wind farm on the grid. Retrieved May 30, 2014 .
  3. ^ Community of Schipkau: Wind farm Klettwitz. Retrieved June 5, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Repowered Klettwitz wind farm returns to the German top ten . In: IWR , July 6, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ The first section of one of the largest repowering projects in Europe in Klettwitz, Brandenburg, is about to be completed . Press release from Venotec. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ Repowering completed. Klettwitz wind farm sold to the British . In: Renewable Energies. Das Magazin , October 14, 2015. Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  7. ↑ Jan Augustin: New plants strengthen the Klettwitz wind farm. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . June 6, 2017, accessed July 31, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Lausitzer Rundschau from September 15, 2011: Lausitzring: World's largest wind power plant still 2011. Accessed on June 5, 2014 .
  9. ^ Regional planning community Lausitz-Spreewald: Objective subregional plan "Wind Energy Use" 2016. June 16, 2016, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Enercity is investing 45 million euros in a new wind farm. August 16, 2019, accessed August 18, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Environmental impact assessments. In: uvp-verbund.de. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .