Bremen, September 30, 2025 - Energiekontor AG ("Energiekontor"; $EKT (-4,85%) ), one of Germany's leading project developers and operators of wind and solar
and solar parks based in Bremen, has sold the Würselen wind farm, which went into operation in May 2025
Würselen to the German energy supplier SachsenEnergie.
The onshore wind farm sold is the repowered Würselen wind farm in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia with a total generation capacity of 18.0 megawatts. The wind farm is eligible for an EEG feed-in tariff and was commissioned in May 2025. The buyer of the Würselen wind farm is SachsenEnergie NaturKraft GmbH, a subsidiary of the Dresden-based energy supplier SachsenEnergie AG. After the transaction, the wind farm will continue to benefit from Energiekontor's many years of operational management experience and optimization support.
Energiekontor planned and built the wind farm more than 20 years ago. Energiekontor replaced the three previous GE wind turbines with a generation capacity of 1.5 megawatts each with three new, more powerful wind turbines from Vestas, each with a rated output of 6.0 megawatts, at the site of the former Aachen coalfield. The hub height of the new V150 turbines is around 125 meters and the rotor diameter is approximately 150 meters. The average expected annual yield of the repowered wind farm is more than 41 million kilowatt hours per year - enough to supply more than 12,500 households in Germany with renewable electricity and save more than 31,000 tons of CO2 per year.
"Repowering wind farms is an important lever for achieving the expansion targets in Germany. Replacing old wind turbines with new, more powerful models increases electricity production, reduces the impact on people and nature and makes wind farms fit for the future again. With this transaction, we and SachsenEnergie are sending out a strong signal for sustainable renewable energies for the first time. Together we are striving for further cooperation," says Peter Szabo, CEO of Energiekontor AG. "Including this wind farm, we have already sold five projects with a total nominal output of around 115 megawatts in the current financial year. Others are at an advanced stage of the sales process."
For the energy supplier SachsenEnergie, the acquisition of the wind farm is an important building block in the expansion of green generation capacities. This is also emphasized by CEO Dr. Frank Brinkmann: "We are pleased to expand our wind portfolio geographically with the Würselen wind farm and to diversify with a new partner through further wind regions. At the same time, the wind farm supports our ambitions in the further expansion of renewable energy generation." Jens-Patric Hirtz, Head of the NaturKraft business division, adds: "We are still open to cooperations. These help us to stabilize our planned growth and diversify. But what is important to us is that we want to achieve growth through our own projects. That's why we are continuing to go full throttle in project development in Saxony and beyond."