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Energiekontor AG: Green light for another repowering project in the district of Aachen – Energiekontor begins construction of the Würselen project

EQS-News: Energiekontor AG / Key word(s): Miscellaneous Energiekontor AG: Green light for another repowering project in the district of Aachen – Energiekontor begins construction of the Würselen project 30.04.2024 / 09:30 CET/CEST The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Green light for another repowering project in the district of Aachen – Energiekontor begins construction of the Würselen project

Bremen, 30 April 2024 – Energiekontor AG (“Energiekontor”), a leading German project developer and operator of wind and solar parks listed in the General Standard, has reached the financial close stage of the Würselen repowering wind park project in the district of Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia. The project, which is now ready for construction, will be included in the company's own portfolio upon commissioning.

Energiekontor received a building permit for the project in autumn 2023, enabling it to successfully participate in the renewables tender by the Bundesnetzagentur, the German Federal Network Agency, in November 2023. The Würselen repowering project has since progressed to financial close. Now that the loan for the project has been approved, work can begin on dismantling the existing and constructing the new wind park.

At the site of the former Aachen coal mining area, three installed GE wind turbines, each with a generation capacity of 1.5 megawatts, are to be replaced by three new, more powerful wind turbines manufactured by Vestas, each with a nominal power of 6.0 megawatts. The new V150 turbines have a hub height of roughly 125 metres and a rotor diameter of approximately 150 metres. By more than quadrupling the total generation capacity to around 18 megawatts once complete, the repowered park’s forecast electricity yield will increase to more than 41 million kilowatt-hours a year – enough to supply some 12,500 households in Germany with renewable electricity and save more than 31,000 tonnes of CO₂ annually.