wpd
| wpd AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat |
Bremen , Germany
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| management | Board |
| Number of employees | 2,200 (2019) |
| sales | EUR 307 million (2018) |
| Branch | Wind and solar energy |
| Website | www.wpd.de |
The wpd AG (proper spelling wpd ), headquartered in Bremen is a German company for the development and operation of wind and solar farms . Wpd is active in 21 countries worldwide.
structure
Wpd and its subsidiaries as well as the other companies in the group plan, build, operate and sell plants in the field of renewable energies. The focus is on onshore and offshore wind energy, with activities in the field of photovoltaics. The group is divided into the business areas Development (project development) and Assets (parks belonging to the company's own portfolio).
The international activities extend to Europe, America and Asia. In addition to the German offices in Bremen, Bietigheim-Bissingen, Bad Kreuznach, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Kassel, Leipzig, Munich, Osnabrück, Potsdam, Rostock and Schleswig, the Wpd Group has offices in Chile (Santiago de Chile and Los Angeles), Finland (Espoo), France (Paris, Boulogne-Billancourt, Dijon, Limoges, Lyon and Nantes), Italy (Rome and Bari), Japan (Tokyo), Canada (Mississauga), Croatia (Dubrovnik), Philippines (Manila), Poland ( Poznan), Romania (Iasi), Sweden (Stockholm), Switzerland (Zurich), Spain (Valladolid), South Korea (Seoul), Taiwan (Taipei and Yunlin) and the USA (Portland and Mission Viejo). As of December 31, 2018, Wpd was active in 21 countries.
history
In 1996 Gernot Blanke and Klaus Meier founded Wpd as a GmbH in Bremen. In 2001 the company was converted into a public limited company. Board members at that time were Blanke and Meier. In 2006, wpd took over EnerSys GmbH , a planner in the wind energy sector. Their managing director Hartmut Brösamle moved to the Wpd board and took over the area of project development and project construction. With the takeover, wpd expanded its project development division, while the EnerSys subsidiaries in France, Spain, Croatia and Bulgaria accelerated internationalization. At the end of 2009, Meier moved to the supervisory board.
At the beginning of July 2011, the company announced that Stadtwerke München had acquired a 33% stake in Wpd Europe, the subsidiary for development and operation in European markets outside Germany.
Projects
By the beginning of 2019, the Wpd Group had built wind farms with 2,200 wind turbines and a total output of 4,450 megawatts, most of them in Germany. Furthermore, wind farms with a total output of 8,725 megawatts ( onshore ) and 7,250 megawatts ( offshore ) were in planning (as of December 2018).
At sea
In the offshore sector, wpd is active in six countries: Germany, Sweden, Finland, France, Japan and Taiwan. This makes wpd one of the leading developers for offshore wind farms .
In operation :
Germany :
- Baltic 1 offshore wind farm The first commercial German offshore wind farm Baltic 1 in the Baltic Sea was developed by Wpd, built by EnBW in 2010 and officially put into operation on May 2, 2011 by Chancellor Angela Merkel .
- Butendiek offshore wind farm On September 8, 2015, the Butendiek offshore wind farm built by Wpd with 80 wind turbines and a total output of 288 MW was put into operation about 32 km west of Sylt in the presence of the former Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin . Butendiek can mathematically supply around 370,000 households with electricity.
- Nordergrund offshore wind farm In December 2017, Wpd commissioned Nordergrund with 18 wind turbines. The wind farm is located 15 kilometers northeast of the island of Wangeroogein in water depths of up to ten meters within the 12 nautical mile zone of the German North Sea. The park's 111 MW can supply 100,000 households.
In development :
Germany :
- Kaikas offshore wind farm In June 2013, Eos Offshore Kaikas GmbH in Bremen, a subsidiary of Wpd, received approval to build one of the largest offshore wind farms in the German exclusive economic zone of the North Sea . In the Kaikas offshore wind park , 83 wind turbines with 7 MW each, for a total of around 580 MW, are to be built. Due to its location in Cluster 10 of the North Sea, Kaikas was not entitled to participate in the two tendering rounds of the Federal Network Agency in 2017 and 2018 under the Wind Energy Offshore Act . The wind farm therefore lacks a claim to grid connection capacity , which the transmission system operators make available. On September 29, 2017, wpd lodged a constitutional complaint against the Wind Energy Offshore Act, invoking the principle of equality , freedom of occupation and the guarantee of property .
- Offshore wind farm Gennaker In June 2019, OWP Gennaker GmbH in Bremen, again a subsidiary of wpd, received the building permit for 103 turbines in the coastal sea of the Baltic Sea off Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) fears negative effects on bird species (including cranes , scoter and long-tailed ducks as well as songbirds ). The wind farm is located in a central flight corridor. NABU filed an objection against the approval of the wind farm .
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On land
The largest wind farm in Baden-Württemberg , the Lauterstein W wind farm project in the Göppingen district near Stuttgart, was put into operation in autumn 2016 after a construction period of around one year.
Web links
- Website
- From barricade fighter to wind farm entrepreneur. Portrait of wpd board member Klaus Meier in the Handelsblatt
Individual evidence
- ^ Company website ; accessed on August 5, 2020
- ↑ a b c d Consolidated annual financial statements 2018 at www.unternehmensregister.de; accessed on August 5, 2020
- ↑ Press release on iwrpressedienst.de ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German image brochure from wpd (PDF file; 3.18 MB)
- ↑ Biography on the website of Blanke Meier Evers lawyers
- ↑ Press release of wpd AG from July 1st, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Reference list for wind energy from wpd AG
- ↑ Euler Hermes Credit Rating Agency: wpd AG
- ↑ Company profile on wpd.de
- ^ Project page of the OWP Butendiek
- ↑ Lars Peters: Butendiek officially on the net. A superlative offshore wind farm . Husum News from September 9, 2015
- ↑ wpd offshore wind farm Nordergrund builds the first turbine and wins another investor , accessed on October 20, 2018.
- ↑ BVerfG , pending proceedings, 1 BvR 1679/17
- ↑ Second wind farm in front of the Darß approved. In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . June 3, 2019, accessed July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Nabu objects to the wind farm in front of the Darß. In: sueddeutsche.de . February 14, 2020, accessed July 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Bernward Janzing : The great unity. neue energie, issue no. 03/2016, pp. 42–45 ( online )
- ↑ Dirk Hülser: Lauterstein: Wind turbines are starting to grow. Göppinger Kreisnachrichten, March 23, 2016
Coordinates: 53 ° 4 '56.3 " N , 8 ° 47' 8.8" E