Onshore wind farm Krusemark-Ellingen

Successfully repowered: RWE has replaced the wind power turbines at the Krusemark-Ellingen wind farm with new, more powerful units. Six state-of-the-art turbines, each with a generation capacity of 3.3 megawatts (MW), replace the 15 systems, resulting in a substantial increase in the wind farm’s generation capacity despite the lower number of rotors.

The location now has a total installed capacity of 19.8 MW, compared to “only” 15.7 MW previously. That represents an increase of about a quarter. The new systems can provide a climate-neutral supply of electricity to more than 13,000 households.

Status: In operation

Repowering at RWE

Facts & figures

Wind turbines

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Installed capacity

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Commissioning

This wind farm in Saxony-Anhalt is a showcase project for RWE in many regards: For the first time existing turbines were dismantled in parallel with the installation of the new systems. As a result, it was possible to keep the old systems running and generating electricity for as long as possible. In addition, the wind farm now consists of just six matching turbines instead of the original 15, which were not completely uniform.

This project, in the rural district of Stendal, also breaks new ground in the important area of recycling. Most of the decommissioned Enercon turbines were sold as complete sets, including the steel towers, to be re-used in other wind farms.