Two Enercon E-160 turbines will supply around 12,000 households with renewable electricity in future
Eulitz/Germany, 25 July 2024. Energiequelle GmbH has started construction of two wind turbines in Saxony. In Eulitz (Meißen district), the international project planning company is erecting two Enercon E-160 turbines, each with a hub height of 166 meters and an output of 5.56 megawatts (MW). The construction of the roads, crane pads and foundations has now been completed and the delivery of the large components is imminent. Installation and final commissioning are planned by the end of the year. The plants are expected to supply around 12,000 households with renewable electricity in the future. The estimated yield of the park is expected to be 36,000 MWh per year.
Energiequelle had already received the approval fort he wind farm in November 2022. However, due to a rescheduling of the plant type, construction could not begin until much later. In the meantime, the Dresden-based Energiequelle GmbH team was also concerned that the regional plan of the Upper Elbe Valley/Eastern Ore Mountains regional planning association would be overturned and the necessary planning law would therefore be lost. The ruling of the OVG Bautzen on 11.05.2023 that the priority and suitability areas for wind energy use in the 2020 regional plan were indeed declared invalid. However, the project is not affected by the ruling due to the BImSchG approval already granted at that time.
Following the repowering of the Mittelherwigsdorf wind farm, the Eulitz wind farm with the two Enercon E-160 turbines is already the second wind farm planned and realized by Energiequelle in the Free State of Saxony. Others will follow in the coming years.
Photo: Foundation of the Enercon turbine E-160
