WIND BLATT

THE ENERCON MAGAZINE

Issue
01/2005

Advances
in the Brazilian
market
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Contents
Dear Readers,
As the following pages will show,
the first WINDBLATT issue in the new
year will contain a newly adapted
layout. The ENERCON magazine thus
follows our Corporate Design. The
table of contents indicated hereafter
is also a new idea. We are, of course,
looking forward to getting feedback
from you.
Yours sincerely,
Aloys Wobben,
Managing Director ENERCON GmbH
Page 2: Laying the foundation stone
Prime Minister at ENERCON
Pages 3-5: Interview with Pedro Vial
Wobben Windpower in Brazil
Pages 6-7: 10 Years with SAP
Put money on the right horse
Pages 8-11: Climate change
It is getting warm in Europe
Page 9: Info Service
Pages 12-13: ENERCON News
To meet requirements of grid
operators
Pages 14-15: ENERCON News
Environmentally friendly
New tower production
Tower: Shades of green
Page 16: Solar Prize
Congratulations to Aloys Wobben
Cover photo: ENERCON wind farm
in Brazil (Porto do Mucuripe/Fortaleza).
Prime Minister Böhmer (left) and Aloys Wobben lay the foundation stone.
Minister impressed
A new building for ENERCON in Magdeburg
olfgang Böhmer was positively im-
W pressed when he was invited to
participate in laying the foundation stone
of the new ENERCON administration
building in Magdeburg-Rothensee in the
middle of January. The Prime Minister of
Saxony-Anhalt was really enthusiastic
about this highly developed production
site built in his state.
After ENERCON Managing Director Aloys
Wobben had given Wolfgang Böhmer a
warm welcome, he had the honour of
laying the foundation stone for the new
ENERCON administration building. The
modern building will be finished by the
end of 2005. The administrative sections
of several ENERCON production plants as
well as ENERCON Sales and Project
Management in Magdeburg will have
their headquarters there.
Afterwards the guests visited the entire
ENERCON site, which is about 310.000 m2.
During this tour, ENERCON Rothensee
Managing Director Volker Ziem gave the
Prime Minister some information about
ENERCON-NEWS
current buildings, infrastructural possi-
bilities as well as future projects.
The company has just finished the con-
struction of a building for up to 100 ap-
prentices. During the tour through the
production site at Rothensee, the guests
had the opportunity to visit the new rotor
blade production for ENERCON wind tur-
bines of the type E-70 (2 MW).
While having a look at the E-112 rotor
blade production site, the guests were
told that the series production of the
4.5 MW turbine is constantly being im-
proved. In autumn, the new generator
impregnation and coating system will
be ready for production. The new blade
mould construction section in Rothen-
see will be used for the first time in Fe-
bruary.
“As soon as these projects are realised,
more than 3,000 people will be working
for ENERCON in Magdeburg and thus for
the wind energy sector”, Volker Ziem
explained at the end of the event.

INTERVIEW
“Cautiously optimistic”
WINDBLATT interview with Wobben Windpower Manager Pedro Vial
For a couple of months
the tariffs for Brazil’s new
feed-in law for renewable energies
have been official.
obben Windpower Manager Pedro
W Vial from Brazil describes the new
situation in a WINDBLATT interview.
WINDBLATT: You have waited for a very
long time for the things happening in
Brazil. Are you pleased now?
Pedro Vial: I am cautiously optimistic.
Cautiously because there were so many
things that happened during those nine
years, that we can only celebrate when
the wind farms are in operation. But I am
optimistic because Brazil is a windy
country. We had a lot of work to con-
vince people in Brazil that wind is a fan-
tastic complement to our huge hydro
power. Now, I believe there is a general
idea of all the benefits that wind can
bring. Wind will come in Brazil. God is
willing!
WINDBLATT: What’s the situation on the
market right now?
Pedro Vial: We were all anticipant after
so many years, waiting for the law and
the regulation. Finally Eletrobras, which
is the big state owned utility, has select-
ed the projects for wind, biomass and
small hydros. In the first phase of the
law, wind will have the possibility of in-
stallating up to 1,100 MW, and the others
(biomass/solar) the same amount. And
this up to December 2008. Many projects
are chosen and the investors are already
there. They signed the PPA contracts with
Eletrobras. Now they are in the phase of
Wobben Windpower Manager Pedro Vial has a
reason to smile.
selecting the manufacturers of the wind
turbines. So we are in close contact with
the investors trying to sell as much as
possible for those already selected. Now
we, ENERCON and Wobben Windpower,
hope to get a nice piece of it, to produce
machines and install wind farms. Until
now, we have sold a total of 208 MW, for
three investors.
WINDBLATT: How is the situation for
other turbine manufacturers on the Bra-
zilian market?
Pedro Vial: I believe that all those manu-
facturers who install or have already in-
stalled a factory in Brazil will have a
better chance. Because until now some
of our competitors have only promised
the Brazilian Government that they intend
to install a facility in Brazil. But the truth
is that nothing is really going on. If they
don’t build a factory in Brazil they have
to import the machines. And the law
says that the Brazilian official banks will
finance investors with special conditions
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in our local currency only if the manu-
facturers can obtain at least 60 per cent
of national contents of the wind farm
during the first phase. In the second
phase, which goes from 2008 to 2022,
only those manufacturers who have at
least 90 per cent will be eligible for local
financing. And local financing is a very
good thing because it would be in local
currency, and then it would be cheaper
for investors. So the owners of the wind
farms want to have Brazilian financing,
but they can only apply for it if they have
this national content. Therefore, if our
competitors establish themselves in
Brazil, they will have a better chance.
WINDBLATT: Where are the best sites for
wind turbines in Brazil?
Pedro Vial: Mainly in the North East of
Brazil, where the winds have very high
medium speed and are also very gentle
winds, with no gusts. That place is
probably one of the best in the world. We
have average wind speeds of around
8 to 9 m/s. Our wind farms over there
have proven that these are very good
conditions. All the North East Coast of
Brazil is like that. In the inland of the
North East there are also some windy
areas, as well as in the very South of
Brazil’s inland, not as high an average
as in the North East, but very good if
compared to the average in Europe.
WINDBLATT: Does the new law include
any rules about the regions for installing
wind farms?
Pedro Vial: For the first 1,100 MW, no
Brazilian state can have more than 220 MW,
although you are not forced to install in
every state. For the second phase this is
open. So during the first phase the
government wants to encourage people
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Wobben Windpower blades production facility in Pecém, Ceará State, Brazil.
not to concentrate only in the North East,
but also in the South and South East, to
prove that wind can also work in all those
conditions in Brazil.
WINDBLATT: What does the Govern-
ment's schedule look like?
Pedro Vial: 1,100 megawatt of wind
energy have to be installed until 2008.
The call for tenders has been finished. In
this context we have already signed con-
tracts for 208 megawatt. I believe that
the investors should make the contracts
with the manufacturers within a short
time in order to comply with the 1,100 MW
target. The second phase can start in
2009. But anyway we have to start buil-
ding the wind farms soon. Otherwise it
might be difficult. The more time cus-
tomers need to make up their minds, the
more difficult it will be for us to give them
a good delivery time. But I am sure that
in the end there will be a positive de-
velopment.
WINDBLATT: Tell us more about the
production facilities of Wobben Wind-
power.
Pedro Vial: In the South East of Brazil, in
Sorocaba, São Paulo, we have the facto-
ry for blades manufacturing for the E-70
and E-48, the generator production as
INTERVIEW
well as the assembly of the whole nacelle
for the E-48. We purchase steel towers
from local vendors. The South East is the
most industrial part of Brazil and there-
fore it is the place where most of our
vendors are.
And today we have a very big amount of
components made in Brazil and assem-
bled by us. In the North East of Brazil in
Pécem, we have a second facility for
rotor blades, which has been operating
for two years now. But we also have the
plan to establish a generator production
and assembly of the whole nacelle there,
depending on the market in the North
East.
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INTERVIEW
WINDBLATT: You started with Wobben Pedro Vial: All of them. VW, General
Windpower nine years ago? Motors, Toyota ... All of them have multi-
fuel engines, because normal fuel in
Pedro Vial: I started officially in October Brazil already contains 20 per cent al-
1995 working for ENERCON, but I first cohol. And the pollution is extremely re-
met Mr. Wobben in 1992, because we duced. I think other countries will follow
were planning to export blades for us on this, and I hope Brazil will follow
ENERCON. A company of friends of mine Germany on wind.
in Brazil were doing those blades and
then we established this relationship WINDBLATT: What did you do before
with ENERCON providing them blades ENERCON came into your life?
made in Brazil. I was a minor partner of
this company in the past. In 1992, I had Pedro Vial: Well, I worked almost all my
the honour of being introduced to the first professional life for the Brazilian aero-
prototype of the gearless E-40 in Aurich. space and missiles industry. After I quit I
Mr. Wobben told me: “This is the future”, started a small consulting office to export
and he was absolutely right. The gearless products from Brazil, from small compa-
concept together with so many other nies to the rest of the world. One of such
fantastic technology breakthroughs that products were rotor blades. That’s when
ENERCON has developed, made our I met Mr. Wobben in 1992. In 1995 he
products the reference wind energy came to me and said that Brazil had a big
turbines in the world. potential, so he decided to establish a
factory here. At that time I had no part-
WINDBLATT: You work for a green energy nership with the blades factory anymore.
company, so you have a special relation- So he invited me to set up a factory and
ship to renewables. But what do “normal” take care of it for him. It was one of the
Brazilian people think of green energy? greatest moments of my life, because I
have been very fortunate to be part of the
Pedro Vial: God gives things to us that ENERCON family.
first we think are bad, but later we un-
derstand they were for our benefit. We WINDBLATT: Thank you, Mr. Vial. E-40 wind farm in Mucuripe, Brazil.
learn from them, and become happier.
When there was this energy problem in
Brazil, people became conscious that we
should think more of green energy. So
we decided to build small hydro power
dams, instead of huge dams, we start
planning more wind and biomass pro-
jects. We have one of the biggest pro-
grams in the world for alcohol fuel, as
you know. We have flexible motors in
Brazil which you can use with oil, with
gasoline or even with 100 per cent al-
cohol. We call them multi-fuel engines.
We have a lot of sugarcane, which we
can use to produce alcohol. That is only
one example of our biomass projects.
The Brazilian people are becoming really
aware that we should use more green
energy.

WINDBLATT: What kind of cars are

equipped with these motors? Wobben Windpower production facility in Sorocaba.
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SUPPLIER

Bet on the right horse

Ten years successful work with SAP software

On the 30th January 1995,

ENERCON installed the company
software SAP. It is absolutely
clear today that ENERCON
made the right decision.

NERCON SAP expert Ernst Loesing

E remembers: “When I started working
for ENERCON in 1994, all clients wanted
to buy our new gearless E-40 turbines
and material management had to deal
with bottlenecks. It was absolutely ne-
cessary to install a sophisticated com-
pany software.”

Besides material management, other

SAP Sales Manager Claus Peters (left) and ENERCON SAP expert Ernst Lösing in a meeting. company areas, such as the financial

SUPPLIER
accounts department, also argued for the
introduction of an ERP system (Enter-
prise Resource Planning). At that time,
ENERCON was a really small company
with only 350 employees. The wind tur-
bine manufacturer decided to install an
entire software system and not to follow
the widespread habit to use internal pro-
grammers.
SAP was a well-known company at that
time. In 1972, five former IBM employees
founded the meanwhile largest ERP sup-
plier. The SAP concept is till today: To
offer a uniform software for all company
areas as many companies are subdivided
into several departments, such as finan-
cial accounts department, material ma-
nagement and sales. The company con-
cept worked. SAP got more and more
customers and individual safety thus in-
creased as well.
“At that time, we were looking for a com-
pany software that could still be used in
ten to fifteen years”, Loesing explains.
About two dozen software companies
hoped to work together with ENERCON.
Out of the two dozen only SAP still exists
today. However, this tendency was not
foreseeable at that time.
According to Ernst Loesing, the next step
was hard work: “We wanted to use the
SAP standard solution. For this reason,
we had to completely change our com-
pany structures.”
ENERCON has used more and more
SAP modules over the years: Service,
Project Management, Sales and Produc-
tion Planning were added to the basic
software system. Claus Peters, SAP Sales
Manager Manufacturing Industry for
Northern Germany, has been responsible
for ENERCON for four years. “ENERCON
decided to use the entire range of SAP
solutions. This way, interface and inte-
gration problems, which often occur
when combining the systems of several
software suppliers, do not appear”, he
explains.
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When starting to use SAP for new pro- products which can be used at very low
duction sites, the ENERCON SAP experts costs. The quality of these products was
were able to benefit from former work so satisfying on a trial basis that mean-
and thus take over entire structures from while they are being used for other areas
ENERCON in Aurich. as well (e. g. remote monitoring).
Today, eight ENERCON employees cen- In the meantime, SAP is being used for
trally manage the SAP system in Aurich. almost each company area: mySAP CRM
“If we had not decided in favour of SAP (Customer Relationship Management)
at that time, but of another software, makes the entire customer planning and
we would have probably had to change service possible. Project Management
our supplier three times and program uses SAP to create its plans necessary to
large ranges on our own”, Ernst Loesing realise the construction of a wind farm
guesses. If ENERCON had done that, from road building to nacelle mounting.
Loesing would not have seven colleagues The so-called optical archiving method
in his department today, but sixty and the serves to transfer scanned invoices, for
IT budget proportion of company sales control purposes, to the SAP operating
would not be below one per cent, but area of the responsible employee and af-
largely above the average of about three terwards forward them to the financial
per cent. accounts department.
Since the licence fee for the Oracle data- For the future, ENERCON is planning
base and the server operating system to further develop the SAP system and
Windows NT, which SAP requires for thus use it for all production sites, so
operation, is very high, ENERCON chan- for Brazil and Turkey as well. The next
ged to the considerably cheaper SAPDB step will then be to evaluate reports
database and the operating system concerning for example customer satis-
LINUX. Both are so-called open source faction.
People who
work with SAP Database-
growing in
900 gigabyte
800
SAP in
India
700
600
logistics, project-
500 accounts management,
Aurich production
400
Euro-Change
and SAP in
300 Magdeburg
SAP
in Aurich
200
100
0
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004
1994
1995 1997 1999 2001 2003
This ENERCON graph shows the number of people working with SAP and the growing of the data base.
8 WIND BLATT 1/2005
Europe is warming up
Plants and animals show signs of a changing climate
Climate change
has already started.
Worldwide.
Even in our neighbourhood.
he white balloon is rising higher and
T higher. After one minute, it has al-
ready reached a height of 300 m. In
90 minutes, it will be approximately
30 kilometres above the ground and due
to a decrease in pressure, its diameter
will have been increased from one meter
to the diameter of an entire house. While
the balloon rises, a sensor mounted
below it transmits data concerning air
temperature, air humidity, pressure con-
ditions and wind per GPS to the German
Weather Service (Deutscher Wetter-
dienst, DWD) in Emden. Walter Janssen
has already let hundreds of such bal-
loons rise in the sky. The balloon bursts
at one point in time and its transmitter,
supported by a miniature parachute, falls
down to the ground. The transmitter is
equipped with a label advising the per-
son who finds it to dispose of it. This pro-
cedure is done four times a day – and
Walter Janssen has already been work-
ing for the German Weather Service for
40 years.
CLIMATE
In more than 3,000 meteorological of-
fices spread over Germany, employees
like Janssen collect climate data. They
transmit warning messages for shipping
and air traffic, create weather reports for
the media and supply climate scientists
with data.
Mild temperatures
“This is an old climate diary. It shows
that forty years ago, there were the same
mild temperatures as today: 7.1°C in the
morning and even 9.1 °C in the evening”,
Janssen points to the pencil-written
weather data. Only the sum of thousands

CLIMATE
of data measurements from all over
Germany, within a period of time of
100 years, is evidence that there is a
temperature rise of 0.6 °C in our lati-
tudes. According to Walter Janssen, the
data delivered by the meteorological
office in Emden is not enough to be proof
of real climate changes. “But I notice that
the weather has changed. Formerly, I
ice-skated a lot, even on the Ems-Jade-
Canal from Emden to Wilhelmshaven”,
he remembers. However, in the past few
years, this is no longer possible because
the ice layer is not thick enough.
Same time, another place, but same sub-
ject: At the 10th UN Climate Conference
in Buenos Aires, Bill Hare from the Pots-
dam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung
(PIK) presents results from the current
climate report of his institute. If the
global average temperature increases by
2.5°C to 3°C, the rice harvest in China
will decrease by 10 to 20 per cent. At
the same time, South Africa will be con-
fronted with a complete harvest shortfall.
In regions where fish meets most of the
protein requirements of the population
this food source will no longer be there
for half of the population if the tempera-
ture increases – a dramatic perspective
against the background of a growing
world population.
The group leader of the European Parlia-
ment at the world conference, the Euro-
pean Representative Karl-Heinz Florenz
of the conservative party CDU told the
German newspaper ZEIT that the aim is
to find new partners and to make plain to
them that climate change is no children’s
game, but probably the greatest danger
for today’s and future generations.
At the climate conference, people from
India, Argentina or the Fiji Islands talked
about droughts and flood disasters in
their countries. The environment organi-
sation WWF invited representatives of
these countries to come to Buenos Aires
to make sure that the suffering of mil-
lions of people does not disappear from
the climate experts’ sight.
1/2005 WIND BLATT 9
Due to the emission of CO2 and other
climate gases, climate change caused by Info Service
humans is a reality with catastrophic
February / March 2005
effects for many poor countries in the
world – most of them often not recog- 15-17/02/ LAREF 2005
2005 and “RIO 5 – World Climate
nised. But even in our latitudes, signs are
Rio de and Energy Event”
becoming more and more obvious. Janeiro Organiser, or information from:
(Brazil) RIO 5 – LAREF –
Peter Triloff is an expert for plant pro- Organization Office
tection at the market community Boden- Phone +55-21 2233-3953
seeobst in Friedrichshafen. He says: “Cox Fax +55-21 2518-2220
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apples.” Fruit farmers instead change to Madrid of Wind Turbines”
Asian and New Zealand apple kinds such (E) Organiser, or information from:
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more heat. Since 1989, the market com- Fax +49 4421 4808-43
munity has collected climate data at the seminar@dewi.de
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change is already visible.
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Climate scientists agree on the fact that San Pedro Organiser, or information from:
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thunderstorms increase, there will soon
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be no fruit farmers anymore”, he pre- www.amik.de
dicts.
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Migratory birds stay 2005 Organiser, or information from:
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Society for Nature Conservation (Natur- Fax +34 91 722 57 88
schutzbund Deutschland), expects con- www.genera.ifema.es
siderable displacement of ecological genera@ifema.es
balance due to climate change. Till now,
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the lapwing was considered as a migra-
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and more often spends the winter in (P) Kommunikations- und
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earlier in spring than 40 years ago. The Fax +49 7121 3016-100
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house martin returns on average ten www.enex-expo.com
days earlier from Africa than 30 years
ago. Some animals no longer cover large 18/03/2005 Windenergy planning
distances, such as a white stork from a Hanover in Baltic states
stork farm in Loburg (Germany), equip- (D) Organiser, or information from:
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10 WIND BLATT 1/2005
Walter Janssen from German Weather Service lets a balloon with measurement transmitter in the sky.
protection, says that an increasing num-
ber of south European bird species breed
in northern areas. Due to progressing
climate change, adaptable species could
replace less robust ones – the possible
beginning of a dramatic species loss.
Strange times for instinct-changing birds
and cheering snow canon manufac-
turers. “Within the last three years, the
demand for snow canons increased by
30 to 40 per cent in German-speaking
countries”, Hans-Peter Demling explains,
Sales employee of the Swedish snow
canon manufacturer Areco Snow system
Ges.m.b.H for Austria, Germany and
Switzerland. Before becoming a sales
employee, the Austrian worked in the ca-
ble railway industry for 20 years. Espe-
cially in lower reaches, the business of
cable railway operators is becoming
more difficult. And since Demling often
climbs mountains, he dares a subjective
assessment of climatic conditions: “It
seems as if it is becoming warmer.” Of
course, there is still snow in this region,
but only a few weeks a year.
Within the last 100 years, the earth
temperature has increased by 0.7°C.
“With much goodwill, we can interpret
the temperature rise during the first
70 years of the last century as a natural
event. However, the extremely rapid in-
crease since the 70s cannot be explained
like that”, Dr. Manfred Stock, PIK expert,
CLIMATE
said. The climate scientist refers to the
large IPCC report from 2001 which re-
flects research results from international
climate experts, based on simulations
and measuring data, concerning climate
change caused by humans.
The latest annual report of the German
Weather Service says: “In 2004, there
was a lot of damage caused by thunder-
storms and dangerous meteorological
conditions in Germany.” Stock thinks that
in future, the sea level will rise and
extreme storm tides will often occur.
South-western Germany will probably be
plagued with flooding and snow on low
mountain ranges will be scarce. “There
is already a shift from continuous rain to
torrential rain today”, Stock explains.
Nutrients are washed out of the soil and
the danger of erosion is increased.
Wine from Brandenburg
Climate change is particularly affecting
the German state of Brandenburg: “Ger-
many’s sandbox” soils do not store water
very well. In hot summers, as in 2003,
field crops wither. Stock fears that as of
2030, such hot summers will be normal.
This would be the end of wheat cultiva-
tion in this region.
Wine is now being cultivated in the
gentle hills of Werder at the Havel. Wine-
growers can be happy. When Manfred
Lindicke started to plant wine in 1985,
this was a risky experiment. Today, the
“Werderaner Wachtelberg” is an estab-
lished wine type. The vineyard is located
to the west of Berlin, at the 52nd latitude,
the so-called “Arctic circle of wine”,
which was the northernmost limit for
winegrowing for a long time. But in the
meantime, wine is successfully being
cultivated in England and Scandinavia as
well. “Winegrowing is definitely moving
north”, Manfred Stock (PIK) notices. “In
the regions where only white wine was
formerly cultivated a good red wine
grows today. And in the regions where
there was not any wine at all, a good
white wine can be found today.” Stock is

CLIMATE
carrying out the study “Climate Adaptility
of European Wine Production (CLAWINE)”
in order to examine the relation between
climate change and winegrowing.
Early blossoms
In 1981, in the context of a forest re-
search project that took place near
Göttingen in Germany, Hartmut Diersch-
ke of the Albrecht-von-Haller institute for
plant science started to collect data of
flowering phases of plants in beech
forests. His studies show a clear ten-
dency: The relatively warm passage from
winter to spring leads to early flowering:
Since the middle of the past century,
snowdrops and forsythias have been
flowering about 3.2 days earlier per de-
cade. For half a century, the growing
season of important deciduous trees has
increased by up to 2.3 days per decade
in Germany.
Drought and bark beetle infestation show
how climate change, for example, dama-
ges spruce trees. During the last deca-
des, Bavarian forest authorities changed
pure conifer forests to mixed forests
mainly containing deciduous trees as
these can better deal with heat and
drought. “Douglas firs and red beeches
are particularly adaptable”, Marc Ku-
batta, Internationale Holzbörse GmbH in
Munich, explains. In the past years, these
American tree types were planted in
Germany as they are resistant to fungal
decay, insects and drought.
After the climate conference in Buenos
Aires, Manfred Stock and his colleagues
are fully aware: The Kyoto report about
stopping climate change, which will
come into effect this month, can only be
the beginning: “We have to rapidly take
further measures in order to considerably
reduce global CO2 emission.” The Envi-
ronment Ministers of the European Union
have already decided to further reduce
the emission of greenhouse gases. Till
2050, 50 per cent less gas than in 1990
shall be emitted.
1/2005 WIND BLATT 11
Comparison
of feed-in laws
In order to stop global climate
change, CO2 emission and thus
fossil fuel combustion have to be re-
duced. In Germany, the further de-
velopment of renewable energies
started with the adoption of the
Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (Re-
newable Energy Law) in 2000.
Other countries have already adop-
ted laws similar to the German law
(e.g. the Netherlands and France).
However, these countries use a
kind of full-load hours model. Since
2001, French wind turbine operators
have received 8.38 cents for each
kilowatt hour of electricity generated
during the first five years of opera-
tion. In the following ten years, their
payment will reduce in dependence
on the amount of electricity produ-
ced till then.
In the full-load hours model, site
quality depends on the amount of
full-load hours: The more full-load
hours, the less payment. A 2 MW
wind turbine for example produces
4,500,000 kWh, which correspond
to approximately 2,250 full-load hours
per year. But a 2.5 MW wind turbine
which produces 4,500,000 kWh only
has 1,800 full-load hours per year.
Below 2,000 full-load hours, the
payment for electricity generation is
reduced in the sixth year of opera-
tion. This means that good wind tur-
bines are not paid out according to
their technical properties. This way,
there is no incentive to further deve-
lop system technology.
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ENERCON-NEWS

ENERCON-NEWS
To meet requirements
of grid operators
ENERCON receives certificate for turbine properties
nce again, ENERCON takes a leading
O position in technological develop-
ments on the energy market. ENERCON
is the first international wind turbine
manufacturer which was awarded a
certificate for turbine properties usually
only characteristic for power stations.
ENERCON Managing Director Aloys
Wobben received the certificate which
again proves that advanced technology
has its place in Northern Germany.
Continuous research and development
deliver important results for a leading
position in the wind energy industry.
“Due to the support from the Managing
Director and owner Aloys Wobben, our
development team was able to work
on a target for several years and to
successfully complete the projects”,
Stefan Hartge, head of the development
Wind power continues to grow in 2004 in the EU
Industry statistics released today for
the EU wind energy market show that
cumulative wind power capacity in-
creased by 20 per cent to 34,205 MW
at the end of 2004, up from 28,568 MW
at the end of 2003.
5,703 MW of wind power capacity were
installed last year, representing a wind
turbine manufacturing turnover of some
5.7 billion Euro. The further rapid pro-
gress that the industry is capable of
delivering is constrained by barriers
such as grid access and administrative
hurdles. Whilst the market for wind
energy in most European countries is
still largely undeveloped, Italy and the
department for electrical engineering,
said.
The “Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elek-
trische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft
e.V.” (FGH) (Research Centre for Electri-
cal Systems and Power Economics), a
traditional institute for the power indus-
try in Mannheim, issued the certificate.
The Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle Tech-
nik (DATech e.V.) (German Accreditation
Body Technology) founded a certifying
body at this institute, just for issuing
such certificates. Dr. Karl-Heinz Weck,
FGH associate and head of certifying
body, thinks that the certificate is an
important instrument to classify wind
turbines for customers and grid ope-
rators.
The first certificate refers to the 2 MW
ENERCON wind turbine. In Schleswig-
Netherlands passed the 1,000 MW thres-
hold in 2004, indicating that important
new European markets are emerging.
Climate change has been prioritised in the
G8 by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. At the
Davos World Economic Forum he said that
“we need to work much harder to find
ways to implement the vast range of low-
carbon technologies that have already be-
en developed”. A high level task force
concluded that G8 Governments should
“generate at least 25 per cent of electri-
city from renewable energy sources
by 2025”. The top five European wind
energy markets in 2004 were Spain
(2,065 MW), Germany (2,037 MW), UK
1/2005 WIND BLATT 13
Holstein, one wind turbine connected to
the grid was tested hundreds of times.
In the first step, the test results are
checked for compliance with the grid
connection regulations of “Vattenfall
Europe Transmission GmbH”. Vattenfall is
a transmission system operator in the
new German states. In the next years,
especially large wind farms, requiring
power-station-like operation, will be
connected to the Vattenfall grid.
Not only German but also foreign utility
companies and grid operators are obser-
ving how wind turbine manufacturers act
on the power station market. ENERCON
expects other manufacturers to follow
suit since this certificate proves for the
first time that the certified wind turbine
types actually meet the corresponding
grid operator regulations for grid connec-
tion.
(240 MW), Portugal (224) and Italy
(221). In 2003, 5,477 MW were in-
stalled in Europe, and the wind power
market increased by 4 per cent in
2004.
The future growth prospects of Europe-
an wind power is reliant on creating su-
stained markets in other European
countries on a scale similar to those in
Germany and Spain, with a cumulative
wind energy capacity of 16,629 MW
and 8,263 MW respectively at the end
2004. The 34,205 MW installed in the
EU by the end of 2004 will, in an aver-
age wind year, produce some 73 TWh
of electricity.
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ENERCON
awarded certificate
Environmental management and energy-saving
Since ENERCON works
in the area of environmental
technology, the company tries
to decrease the direct and
indirect negative influence
on nature.
he photovoltaics installation on a
T new rotor blade production building
as well as on the roof of the research de-
Solvent-free impregnation method during generator production.
partment in Aurich is only one example
for environmental awareness within the
company. Furthermore, adequate heat
insulation raises new buildings to the
standard of a low-energy house.
Environment-friendly materials are used
during the entire energy-saving pro-
duction process. Examples are the intro-
duction of a new, solvent-free impregna-
tion method during generator production,
the particularly environment-friendly in-
jection process for the new generation of
ENERCON rotor blades and the use of
ENERCON-NEWS
reusable packaging and kanban sys-
tems.
In the context of ENERCON’s environ-
mental management, the Germanische
Lloyd Hamburg carried out the environ-
mental certification almost unnoticed.
“In July 2004, an expert of Germanischer
Lloyd was in Aurich to determine the
environmental status of our company.
Afterwards, we prepared the certification
for 2004. And now we are possessing
the certificate DIN EN ISO 14001, just in
time for the turn of the year”, David
Kolecki, ENERCON environmental officer,
explains. It was only possible to receive
the certificate this quickly because
ENERCON had already been on a high
environmental management level. In
general, the preparation time takes about
one and a half years. The certifying body
explicitly underlined both the fast and
pragmatic realisation of improvement
suggestions and the employees’ high
identification with the environmental ma-
nagement system.
The standard requires complete deter-
mination of all environment-affecting
factors, documentation of regulations,
manuals and continuous legal confor-
mity. Furthermore, ENERCON sets its own
high standard, for example, when carry-
ing out emergency exercises, such as
simulating an environmental accident,
or limiting the truck speed to 120 km/h.
The gearless turbine systems are espe-
cially environment-friendly as there is
much less lubrication oil required.
Last but not least, ENERCON employees
have the possibility of using pool bikes
for car-free lunch breaks.

ENERCON-NEWS
Production of concrete towers at WEC tower production in Magdeburg, Germany.
New tower facility
Production on 90,000 m 2 in Northern Germany
new ENERCON production site is
A currently being built in Emden, Nor-
thern Germany. In the future, prefab con-
crete towers for wind turbines will be
produced there. Work has already started
on a rented surface of 90,000 m2 (incl.
storage) in the harbour of Jarßum. The
entire construction work will likely be
ready towards the end of 2006.
ENERCON already has prefab concrete
tower production sites in Magdeburg
(Germany) and India. The factory in Emden
will be double the size of that in Magde-
burg. The prefab concrete towers for wind
turbines of the type E-70 and E-112 will
be cast in a production hall with a length
of about 300 m and a width of approxi-
mately 75 m. An investment in the double-
digit million range will be spent for the
site construction. During a press confe-
rence, ENERCON Managing Director Aloys
Wobben designated this project as am-
bitious.
Towers for about 50 to 70 E-70 turbines
and for five to twelve E-112 turbines will
be produced in the first production year.
This way, up to 100 new jobs will be
created at the ENERCON production site in
Emden in the following years.
Prefab concrete towers have many ad-
vantages for wind turbines: Series pro-
duction leads to quality-conscious and
weather-independent manufacturing of
large quantities and complicated pro-
duction steps are automated in the fac-
1/2005 WIND BLATT 15
Well known
shades of green
A survey of Ipsos GmbH for empiri-
cal legal research among German-
speaking wind turbine and solar
system owners and possible ope-
rators shows that 97.3 per cent of
the interviewed people associate
different shades of green, which
ENERCON uses to design its tower
bases, with wind energy. According
to 81.8 per cent, the tower colours
stand for a certain manufacturer
and 74.5 per cent were even able
to concretely name ENERCON as
wind turbine manufacturer using
these colours. A further 3.6 per cent
selected ENERCON from a list of
names.
This makes clear that the different
shades of green in the lower tower
part, typical for ENERCON wind tur-
bines, are well-known and mostly
associated with ENERCON. A total
of 110 surveys were conducted and
evaluated.
tory. Furthermore, transformer units and
cables are inserted into the lower tower
segment at the production site. This
procedure avoids time-consuming instal-
lation on site.
When ENERCON selected the production
site at the harbour in Emden, logistic
advantages played a decisive role. “We
would like to use the Rhine to transport
turbines to the interior of Germany”,
Wobben said. The export volume to foreign
countries via the harbour of Emden will
increase as well. Experts estimate that
the movement of goods in the harbour of
Emden will on average rise from five to
six million tons in the following years.
ENERCON activities will play an important
role in this context.
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THE ENERCON MAGAZINE

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Alberta TOK 1 WO · Canada
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Ideal precursor
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GREAT BRITAIN
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n ten different categories, 14 world leader in the wind ener- the possibilities for a complete
I people recently received Eu-
ropean Solar Prizes awarded
gy area. Due to continuous
technological innovations,
replacement of nuclear and
fossil energy by renewable
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In this context, ENERCON Ma- Wobben’s purposefulness, vi- for satisfaction at ENERCON.

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was awarded a special prize
for his personal commitment.
Franz Alt made the speech on
the laureates and said that in
1984, Aloys Wobben had foun-
ded ENERCON in a really un-
promising market environment.
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former pioneer company is a
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