CEE Group acquires 103.5 MWp solar park in the Netherlands from Ecorus Group

Ham­burg-based CEE Group, asset man­ag­er for renew­able ener­gies, has acquired a ground-mount­ed solar park in the province of Gronin­gen, the Nether­lands, from Dutch project devel­op­er Ecorus Group. After com­ple­tion, the Fled­der­bosch solar park will have a capac­i­ty of around 103.5‑megawatt peak (MWp). This means that the CEE Group has solar ener­gy plants with a total capac­i­ty of over 350 MWp in the Nether­lands alone.

The Ham­burg-based CEE Group, asset man­ag­er for renew­able ener­gies, has acquired a ground-mount­ed solar park in the province of Gronin­gen, the Nether­lands, from the Dutch project devel­op­er Ecorus Group. The Fled­der­bosch ground-mount­ed solar park is cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion and will have a capac­i­ty of approx­i­mate­ly 103.5 MWp upon com­ple­tion. Ecorus is also the EPC part­ner for the con­struc­tion of the park.

The sign­ing and clos­ing of the pur­chase agree­ment with the project devel­op­er Ecorus took place in Feb­ru­ary 2023. Both par­ties have agreed not to dis­close the pur­chase price. Com­mis­sion­ing of the plant is planned for Feb­ru­ary 2024. The elec­tric­i­ty will be pur­chased through the Dutch SDE++ sup­port sys­tem for renew­able ener­gies and will have a fixed tar­iff for at least 15 years. The Nether­lands is thus one of the few coun­tries still oper­at­ing with such a state-guar­an­teed tar­iff sys­tem.

The Fled­der­bosch solar park is being built about nine kilo­me­tres north of the city cen­tre of Gronin­gen on a brown­field site bor­dered by a sewage treat­ment plant to the south­east, a canal to the south­west and a coun­try road and a small for­est to the north­west. Numer­ous nature con­ser­va­tion mea­sures are also planned as part of the devel­op­ment of the site. For exam­ple, the his­toric water­course “Oude Kwens” will be restored, which flows through a flood­plain reserved for birds, and five rest­ing places and an edu­ca­tion area will also be cre­at­ed.

Advan­ta­geous con­di­tions in the Nether­lands

“We have gained a new part­ner in the Nether­lands with Ecorus Group. The Fled­der­bosch solar park is our first joint trans­ac­tion, which, with a size of 103.5 MWp, rep­re­sents anoth­er impor­tant build­ing block in our grow­ing Dutch PV port­fo­lio. The Nether­lands plays an impor­tant role here in our inter­na­tion­al port­fo­lio of wind pow­er and PV plants,” explains Detlef Schreiber, CEO of CEE Group. “We would like to thank Ecorus Group’s Dutch solar experts for the always pro­fes­sion­al and goal-ori­ent­ed coop­er­a­tion at eye lev­el,” adds Fran­jo Sal­ic, Head of Inter­na­tion­al Invest­ments at CEE Group about the coop­er­a­tion.

Philippe Van­hoef, CEO and founder of Ecorus Ener­gy, explains: “Our goal is to dri­ve the expan­sion of onsite and off­site solar ener­gy in Europe in the spir­it of an inter­na­tion­al ener­gy tran­si­tion. The coop­er­a­tion with the CEE Group is char­ac­terised by a high lev­el of pro­fes­sion­al­ism and exper­tise. This is an indis­pens­able basis for the suc­cess of the cross-gen­er­a­tional task of cli­mate pro­tec­tion and ener­gy secu­ri­ty.”