The independent service provider Deutsche Windtechnik X-Service GmbH has received two contracts within the space of a few weeks for the new Nordex N117 turbines. The service specialists assumed responsibility for the maintenance of three N117 turbines for Planet energy GmbH (Greenpeace Energy) in March. Now the project developer Green City Energy AG from Munich has added a full maintenance contract for four more turbines. The unusual element: The wind farm will not begin operations until 2017. According to the full maintenance contract, Deutsche Windtechnik will begin maintaining the park from the first quarter of 2019. The two orders for the N117 technology means that Deutsche Windtechnik is now involved in servicing Nordex’s new generation of Gamma turbines.
The four turbines that are already under contract with Deutsche Windtechnik are still in the planning phase. The Bürgerwald wind farm near Coburg in Germany is to go into operation in the first quarter of 2017. And yet the full maintenance contract – including large components, rotor and external damage, a condition of funding – has already been signed. “Deutsche Windtechnik meets all the requirements for quality of service and cost-effectiveness,” said Klaus Silbernagl, Head of Purchasing at Green City Energy.
