Juwi to purchase up to 35 Kenersys wind turbines - Project developer and wind turbine manufacturer seal supply deal

Wörrstadt/Münster - German clean energy developer the juwi group, based in Wörrstadt, has struck a deal with Kenersys Europe to buy wind turbines for its projects. Kenersys is the European subsidiary of Indian company Kalyani Group. The two partners signed their agreement at juwi’s headquarter in Wörrstadt, in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Under the agreement, Kenersys Europe will supply juwi with up to 35 K 100 wind turbine generators (WTGs) with 2.5-megawatt rated power and 100 meter rotor diameter over the next three years. Juwi is one of Germany’s leading wind, solar and bioenergy project developers. “We’re always on the lookout for suppliers of reliable wind energy converters because the amount of projects we’re involved in is continuously growing,” says Dr. Marie-Luise Pörtner, juwi’s head of the purchasing department in the wind sector. “Kenersys’ turbine design and its extensive development and production expertise convinced us.” The framework contract is valued at more than 100 million euros.

Kenersys will produce the WTGs for juwi starting in 2009 in the north German port town Wismar on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Juwi is Kenersys’ first client in Germany. “This cooperation paves the way forward for us into the German marketplace. The demand is big enough for quality suppliers like Kenersys to gain the necessary leverage,” says Dr. Andreas Reuter, managing director of Kenersys Europe. Dr. Reuter is one of the most recognized design and construction engineers for WTGs and heads Kenersys Europe GmbH from its base in Muenster in the Westphalia region of Germany. Dr. Pörtner adds, “The Kenersys turbines open up new prospects for us with their combination of very good cost-performance ratio and high quality”.

Juwi intends to install the Kenersys WTGs in Germany and other European countries. It will use them in two variations: with 100- meter steel towers and 133-meter hybrid towers developed by the dutch company Advanced Tower Systems (ATS). ATS hybrid towers consist of narrow pre-cast concrete components in the lower segment, topped by conventional steel elements in the upper segment. They enable high hub heights and in turn produce more energy at comparatively low overall cost.


About Kenersys

Kenersys (Kalyani Energy Systems) Europe GmbH, is a globally active supplier of wind turbines and a subsidiary of the Kalyani Group of India. With its flagship Bharat Forge, Kalyani is an internationally active industrial corporation headquartered in Pune, India, and one of the leading suppliers of forging components for the automobile components industry. Kalyani generates 2.5 billion dollars in annual revenue and employs around 10,000 people. Kenersys’ administration location is in Muenster, Germany, where it employs some 50 people. Factories are being built in Wismar and India. The parent company, led by chairman Baba Kalyani, has three more locations in Germany, including one in Daun in the Eifel region where it operates a components factory serving the automobile, agricultural machinery and construction equipment industries.

About the juwi group

With annual revenues of some 400 million euros, the juwi group ranks among Germany’s leading renewable energy companies. With about 400 staff, juwi is involved in the entire service value creation chain in the segments of photovoltaics, wind energy and bioenergy. So far juwi has implemented projects amounting to 300 wind turbines – altogether more than 450 MW. Besides on its home market in Germany, the company is developing more wind power projects in France, the Czech Republic, Poland, the United States and Costa Rica. In the solar segment, juwi had implemented approximately 800 PV installations representing more than 150,000 kilowatts of capacity – investment valued at more than 600 million the end of October 2008.


Wörrstadt/Münster, November 28th, 2008


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