{"id":489,"date":"2019-09-04T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wpd.de\/en\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2026-06-29T11:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:31:53","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wpd.de\/en\/wpd\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"a:1:{i:0;s:0:&#8221;&#8221;;} a:1:{i:0;s:3:&#8221;825&#8243;;}    0 History The story of wpd has already lasted more than two decades. A success story which the company has developed ever further since its inception in 1996, as it has now long since put its commitment to renewable energy and the challenge of the energy turnaround into practice on a global scale. Follow a few important milestones in our history here &#8230;\r\n\r\n&nbsp; weiss    a:2:{i:0;s:11:&#8221;text-normal&#8221;;i:1;s:5:&#8221;cards&#8221;;} Milestones   grau slider 3407 2025 <ul>\r\n \t<li>Most successful tender year in Germany with a contract volume of 1,135 megawatts<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  a:17:{i:0;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:1;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:2;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:3;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:4;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:5;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:6;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:7;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:8;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:9;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:10;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:11;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:12;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:13;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:14;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:15;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;i:16;s:4:&#8221;card&#8221;;} 3764 2024 <ul>\r\n \t<li>Around 840 megawatts of permits in Germany for onshore wind energy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Numerous projects ready for construction and under construction in Finland and Sweden. Projects with a total of 1.7 gigawatts in the project pipeline<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  2716 2023 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd continues to grow in key markets for wind and solar energy<\/li>\r\n \t<li>wpd concludes refinancing of Taiwanese Luwei and Chungwei onshore wind farms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  2619 2022 wpd receives concessions for the development of onshore projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina  1822 2021 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd completes wind farm Torozos in Spain with about 170 MW<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  2439 2020 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd awards Nordex Group contract for 188 MW in Finland<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  1539 2019 <ul>\r\n \t<li>Bj\u00f6rn Nullmeyer becomes new member of wpd AG\u2019s Management Board<\/li>\r\n \t<li>wpd is establishing itself as a part-ner for PPAs in Finland and Sweden<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  2440 2016 <ul>\r\n \t<li>Tender contract awarded for 350 megawatts for onshore wind farm in Chile<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  2175 2015 <ul>\r\n \t<li>Company\u2019s own portfolio of wind farms crosses the 1,000 megawatts mark<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  347 2014 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd commissions its first two projects in Canada, and also starts construction of a major project in Finland<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  224 2011 Stadtwerke M\u00fcnchen takes a 33 percent stake in wpd europe GmbH; the international onshore activities in Europe and Canada are consolidated in this wpd subsidiary  314 2006 wpd acquires EnerSys GmbH; this leads to acceleration of international project development; Managing Director of EnerSys, Dr. Hartmut Br\u00f6samle, is appointed to the Board of wpd AG  213 2005 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd enters the world of international project financing with a 50 megawatts project in Taiwan<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Wind turbines with more than 1,000 MW are installed by wpd<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>    179 2001 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd AG set up<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Over 200 turbines and around 240 megawatts in operation<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>  137 2000 <ul>\r\n \t<li>wpd offshore GmbH founded<\/li>\r\n \t<li>More than 100 turbines and over 100 megawatts on the grid<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>    0 kein_schmuck 0 172 1997 Realisation of the first wind farm:\r\nOlzheimer Berg  kein_schmuck 0 192 1996 wpd GmbH founded by Dr. Klaus Meier and Dr. Gernot Blanke  ","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170,"parent":401,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-flexible-contents.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-489","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The story of wpd has already lasted more than two decades. 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