CEE Group expands wind power portfolio with four turbines in Neckar-Odenwald district

The Ham­burg-based CEE Group, asset man­ag­er for renew­able ener­gies, is expand­ing its wind pow­er port­fo­lio with four wind tur­bines in the north of Baden-Württemberg. There, the com­pa­ny has pur­chased the new­ly devel­op­ing wind farm Hain­stadt-Buchen from ABO Wind AG. Locat­ed in the Neckar-Oden­wald dis­trict, the wind farm con­sists of four Ves­tas V126 wind tur­bines with a hub height of 149 meters.

The wind farm com­pris­es four wind tur­bines from the man­u­fac­tur­er Ves­tas. The wind tur­bine type V126 has a rat­ed pow­er of 3.45 megawatts (MW). The total capac­i­ty of the four tur­bines is 13.8 MW, and the expect­ed elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­a­tion is 31 mil­lion kWh per year. The sell­er of the tur­bines is ABO Wind AG, based in Wies­baden, Ger­many. Found­ed in 1996, the com­pa­ny has so far imple­ment­ed renew­able ener­gy plants with a capac­i­ty of 4,000 megawatts and has built about half of them. This is the third time that the CEE Group and ABO Wind have suc­cess­ful­ly coop­er­at­ed. The first prepara­to­ry con­struc­tion mea­sures have already been start­ed. Com­mis­sion­ing is sched­uled for Jan­u­ary 2023. Both con­trac­tu­al part­ners have agreed not to dis­close the pur­chase price.

The com­pa­ny ABO Wind has planned the project, will con­struct it and will also take over the tech­ni­cal man­age­ment of the wind farm after com­ple­tion. The Hain­stadt-Buchen site is locat­ed at an alti­tude of 430 to 450 meters above sea lev­el in a wood­ed area. In prepa­ra­tion for the con­struc­tion phase, the nec­es­sary clear­ing has already been com­plet­ed, with ABO Wind tak­ing care to ensure envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly imple­men­ta­tion, draw­ing on the expe­ri­ence gained from around 300 wind tur­bines erect­ed in for­est areas to date. In order to keep the impact on nature as low as pos­si­ble, ABO Wind relies, for exam­ple, on the use of main­ly exist­ing paths instead of build­ing new roads, refor­esta­tion mea­sures and under­ground cabling.

The four new wind tur­bines will pro­duce clean elec­tric­i­ty for about 26,000 peo­ple, sav­ing about 24,000 tons of car­bon diox­ide annu­al­ly in the future. The com­mer­cial law firm Tay­lor Wess­ing and the con­sult­ing firm Ever­gy Engi­neer­ing GmbH act­ed as legal and tech­ni­cal advi­sors respec­tive­ly in this trans­ac­tion.

Advancing sustainable and secure energy supply

“With the Hain­stadt-Buchen wind farm, we are con­sis­tent­ly expand­ing our port­fo­lio of renew­able ener­gy gen­er­a­tion plants. For the sec­ond time with­in a year, we have once again worked togeth­er with ABO Wind AG on this project in a very trust­ing and coop­er­a­tive man­ner, but above all in a solu­tion-ori­ent­ed man­ner. We would like to thank ABO Wind AG for the extreme­ly pro­fes­sion­al and goal-ori­ent­ed coop­er­a­tion and look for­ward to fur­ther joint projects in order to advance the future of a sus­tain­able and secure ener­gy sup­ply on a nation­al and inter­na­tion­al lev­el,” explains Detlef Schreiber, CEO of the CEE Group.

Kristof Frank, Head of Depart­ment Plan­ning South­west Ger­many of ABO Wind AG: “With the wind farm project in Hain­stadt-Buchen we con­tin­ue our suc­cess­ful coop­er­a­tion with the CEE Group as a reli­able, nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly suc­cess­ful investor in the field of renew­able ener­gies. We under­stand the con­clu­sion of this trans­ac­tion as a recog­ni­tion of the spe­cial qual­i­ty of the wind farms devel­oped, built and tech­ni­cal­ly man­aged by us and look for­ward to fur­ther trust­ing coop­er­a­tion in terms of a sus­tain­able ener­gy future and part­ner­ship with CEE.”