Green GECCO commissions new wind farm in Germany

Green GECCO has announced the commissioning of the new Düshorner Heide wind farm at Walsrode in the Heide district in Lower Saxony, Germany.

The latest one is said to be the company’s fifth onshore wind farm and extends the existing portfolio by 26 to over 80Mw of installed capacity.

According to the joint venture company of 29 municipal utilities and RWE Innogy, the Düshorner Heide wind farm was completed in the spring and has an installed capacity of 26MW in total.

With its capacity, the wind farm has the capability to produce up to 53,500Mw-hours of electricity annually to supply the equivalent of some 16,000 households with eco-friendly energy besides avoiding more than 40,000t of CO2 emissions.

Green GECCO management member and representative of the municipal utility partners Dr Norbert Ohlms said: "At Green GECCO, 30 strong partners together make their contribution to the energy transition and have built up a broad-based wind portfolio.

"Our five wind farms are in a position to produce eco-friendly power for over 55,000 households. In purely arithmetical terms, we would thus be able to supply a mid-sized city."

RWE Innogy CEO Dr Hans Bünting said: "We took on the planning, construction and now also the operation of the Düshorner Heide wind farm by way of providing services for Green GECCO.

"This is precisely our core competence which we have been offering actively for the first time as onshore wind services for third parties since the beginning of this year."

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Image: Düshorner Heide wind farm in Lower Saxony, Germany. Photo: courtesy of RWE Innogy