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Conergy Group Press Release - Germany
Jan. 29, 2007
EPURON expands its international activities in the wind
power sector. The company will kick off the new year with the development of
two wind farms with a total output power of 16 Megawatts in Southern Brittany.
The projects will be managed by the French subsidiary of EPURON based in Paris. The construction of both sites will commence
in February.
By mid-2007, four REpower MM82 wind turbines will be
installed in the Derval and Lusanger regions. The infrastructural development
will be entrusted to the experts of ABO Wind AG. With over 80 metres in
diameter, the rotors will produce around 33 million kilowatt hours of
electricity per year. This electrical power is sufficient to run some 9,400
households saving about 24,750 tons of environmentally harmful greenhouse gases.
"There is an increasing interest among institutional
investors in wind power projects in France. This stems from their exceptional
investment opportunities. We are catering to this market by developing projects
that allow us to assemble attractive financing packages“, says Joachim Mueller,
member of the Managing Board at EPURON who is responsible for finance and wind
power.
EPURON has been operating in the wind power sector since
2001 and has already implemented projects with a total capacity of over 215
Megawatts. Last year, construction began of its first wind farm in Italy. In
addition to the projects already completed, EPURON has short to mid-term
projects with a total capacity of around 673 Megawatts in its pipeline. In
2006, sales from the wind power segment accounted for over 55 percent of the
company's total revenue.
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