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 …
- Björn Nullmeyer becomes new member of wpd AG’s Management Board
- wpd is establishing itself as a part-ner for PPAs in Finland and Sweden
- wpd succeeds in concluding first direct marketing contract for the Iwuy wind farm in France
- Contracts won in onshore tenders in Germany
- wpd wins contracts for 1,000 megawatts for the Taiwanese offshore projects Yunlin and Guanyin
- Achim Berge Olsen is appointed to the Board of wpd AG
- wpd wins contract for 170 megawatts in Spain
- Nordergründe offshore project goes into operation
- wpd begins construction of the Nordergründe offshore wind farm
- Tender contract awarded for 350 megawatts for onshore wind farm in Chile
- Company’s own portfolio of wind farms crosses the 1,000 megawatts mark
- Butendiek offshore wind farm goes into operation
- Head Office in Bremen moves to new building next to the river Weser
- wpd commissions its first two projects in Canada, and also starts construction of a major project in Finland
- Third wind farm in Croatia in operation
- Collaboration with Albwerk to realise Lauterstein wind farm
Stadtwerke München takes a 33 percent stake in wpd europe GmbH; the international onshore activities in Europe and Canada are consolidated in this wpd subsidiary
- wpd takes over Butendiek offshore wind project
- Most successful year in sales terms with 405 megawatts of newly secured business
wpd sells nine wind energy projects with 163 megawatts to Stadtwerke München, HSE and Mainova
Sale of Hochseewindpark Nordsee (Hohe See) offshore projects, Baltic 1, Kriegers Flak I (Baltic 2) and He Dreiht to EnBW AG with a cooperation agreement for project and construction management
wpd acquires EnerSys GmbH; this leads to acceleration of international project development; Managing Director of EnerSys, Dr. Hartmut Brösamle, is appointed to the Board of wpd AG
- wpd enters the world of international project financing with a 50 megawatts project in Taiwan
- First approvals for offshore projects in the Baltic Sea
- wpd AG set up
- Over 200 turbines and around 240 megawatts in operation
- wpd offshore GmbH founded
- More than 100 turbines and over 100 megawatts on the grid
Realisation of the first wind farm:
Olzheimer Berg
wpd GmbH founded by Dr. Klaus Meier and Dr. Gernot Blanke
