Nordex SE
Company type
Industry
Founded
Headquarters
Key people
José Luis Blanco Diéguez (CEO), Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart (Chairman of the supervisory board)
Products
Services
Maintenance of wind turbines
Revenue
€6.489 billion (2023)[1]
€-208 million (2023)[1]
€-302 million (2023)[1]
€5.725 billion (end 2023)[1]
€978 million (end 2023)[1]
Number of employees
10,133 (average, 2023)[1]
Website
Nordex SE is a European company that designs, sells and manufactures wind turbines. The company's headquarters in the German city of Rostock while management is in Hamburg. Nordex produces at sites in Germany, Brazil, India, Mexico and Poland and, until 2022, in Spain. The main production facility is located at the headquarters in Rostock.[2] Nordex has branches and subsidiaries in 19 countries. According to the company, it had installed wind turbines with a total capacity of around 50 GW in over 40 countries worldwide by the end of 2023.[2] The company was founded in 1985 in Give, Denmark. Since then the company steadily grew. In 1995 Nordex was the first company to mass-produce a 1 MW turbine booster. The company Südwind Babcock-Borsig has been fully implented into Nordex on October 1, 2001. Nordex began also producing the turbines of the manufacturer Südwind, which had previously gone bankrupt. Nordex started producing turbines in the 1.5 MW class (ProTec MD 1,500 kW) from 2001 - originally from "pro + pro Energiesysteme" (a subsidiary of aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH and Denker & Wulf) developed the S70 and later the S77 - under license.
In 2016, the wind turbine manufacture business unit of Spanish conglomerate Acciona, Acciona Windpower, merged with those of Nordex to form Nordex Group.[3]
As of 2013, the third generation of Nordex wind turbines included two platforms, rated at 2.4 and 3.3 MW.
In Europe, Africa and North America Nordex manufactures and sells the Gamma series, a product family comprising the N90/2500, the N100/2500 and the N117/2400. The N90/2500 is a turbine being developed for strong winds. The N100/2500 consists of two versions, Highspeed and Lowspeed, the first one for rather windy locations, the second for medium wind conditions. The N117/2400 was designed especially for low-wind regions (IEC 3). The hub height of the 2.4-2.5 MW windturbines reaches from 65 meters for the N90/2500 to 141 meters for the low wind version of the N117/2400.
Parameter
N80 IEC1
N90 IEC1
N90 IEC2
N100 IEC 2
N100 IEC3
N117/2400 IEC3
Rated Power (kW)
2,500
2,500
2,500
2,500
2,500
2,400
Cut-in wind speed (m/s)
3
3
3
3
3
3
Cut-out wind speed (m/s)
25
25
25
25
25
20
Rotor diameter (m)
80
90
90
100
100
117
Swept area (m2)
5,026
6,362
6,362
7,823
7,823
10,751
m2 per MW
2,010
2,548
2,548
3,129
3,129
4,480
Revolutions per minute
10.8-18.9
10.3-18.1
9.6-16.8
9.6-14.8
9.6-14.8
7.5-13.2
Overspeed control
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Pitch
Gearbox
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
yes
Generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
double-fed asynchronous generator
Grid frequency
50/60 Hertz
50/60 Hertz
50/60 Hertz
50/60 Hertz
50/60 Hertz
50/60 Hertz
Hub height (m)
60
65/70/80
80/100
75/80/100
80/100/140
91/120/141
In 2013 Nordex launched the Delta-Class-Series, entering series production in January 2014 with prototypes installed in mid-2013. There will be two new types of turbines, the N100/3300 strong-wind turbine and the N117/3000, which is designed for medium-wind sites. Both turbines feature the rotorblades already used in the Gamma-Series, with the rotorblades of the N117 being slightly upgraded to withstand the higher wind speeds in IEC wind class 2a. Both turbines are equipped with a three-stage gearbox and a doubly fed asynchronous generator.[5][6]
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