Wachtendonk, Germany

The Wachtendonk wind farm is located in the Northrhine-Westphalia region of Germany.

The total installed capacity of the wind farm is 12.0MW, comprising eight Nordex S77 turbines, each with a 1.5 MW rating. The Wachtendonk wind farm has a net capacity factor of 22.5%.

Wachtendonk



Key Information

Funding

Euro denominated limited recourse debt facility provided by a German commercial bank

Revenue

assurance

Under German renewable energy law, electricity utilities are obliged to connect wind power assets to their networks and to take 100% of the electricity produced at the current (regulated fixed) tariff

Customers

RWE Rhein-Ruhr Netzservice GmbH

Construction

Fixed price lump sum engineering, procurement and construction turnkey contract with Nordex Energy GmbH

Operation

10 year1 maintenance contract with Nordex
10 year1 technical management agreement with Renerco
10 year1 operating management agreement with Renerco

Land

Land leases with 20 years2 (minimum) tenure

Regulatory

regime

German fixed price system (EEG)



Notes:
1. From start of operations (Oct, 2005)
2. From 2000