Going hand in hand at greenwind: forestry practice and the energy transition

When it comes to wind in forestry, there is one principle which always takes centre stage for us at greenwind: energy transition and forest ecology must not be played off against each other. They only work together. For our wind projects this means ...

A done deal! Municipal heat planning gets Mansfeld’s heat transition rolling

The greenwind* MHP team has conceived the municipal heat planning for the unified municipality of Mansfeld in Saxony-Anhalt. The city council has recently ...

H2 Ely gains shape. Hybrid parks with BESS. The heat transition is underway!

greenwind remains steadily on course despite frequently changing market conditions for green hydrogen. The development plan for the H2 electrolyser in Dachwig is ...

Construction goes into full swing!

The greenwind Construction team is not only building and building, but also putting into operation. 2025 saw three ...

6 new wind parks in TOM. Data empowers wind!

The greenwind Technical Operations Management (TOM) portfolio also expanded in 2025 with six new wind parks in Rhineland-Palatinate, ...

300 MW in the authorisation process

“2025 was a year full of activity that saw us specifically working on our projects as well as focusing on digital progress in project development,” summarises Franziska Göbel!

V162, 6.0 MW supplies green electricity

A new wind turbine built by greenwind: a Vestas V162, 6.0 MW is now ...

Project awarded: wind turbine by greenwind

In only three years Marie-Luise Mörk has taken the Schönfelde-Jänickendorf wind farm project (Brandenburg) to the approval stage. The green light for the construction and operation of the planned wind turbine has now ...

Christoph Heilmann chairs greenwind Forum at Windenergietage in Potsdam

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Heilmann (photo), responsible for Research and Development at Green Wind Engineering GmbH, will again attend the 33rd Windenergietage (Wind Energy Days) in Potsdam taking place from 12 to 14 November.

Contract awarded for greenwind team plant!

“What a success! We have been awarded the contract for the employee wind turbine by the Federal Network Agency.”

Moabit neighbourhood festival

At the Moabit neighbourhood festival, the Energy and Climate Day, quite a lot was going on at greenwind‘s municipal heat planning stand. Our dedicated team had come up with a few specials ...

Recertification: reliably safe!

Green Wind Operations GmbH has successfully completed recertification in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 for quality management and the ISO 45001:2023 surveillance audit (occupational health and safety management system).

Sandra Zanzig new Head of Technical Operations Management

“It’s the blend of engineering and economics which suits me particularly well,” explains greenwinds’ new Head of Technical Operations Management (TOM).

Start of construction 2 Nordex N 163.7 MW in Groß Welle

Let’s go! We’re making waves at the Groß Welle wind farm!

16 small wind turbines tested

Green Wind Engineering has inspected all 16 small wind turbines on the roof of the Werner & Mertz GmbH in Mainz.

We’re building your wind turbine!

Turnkey realisation expertise. Whether new construction or repowering – we coordinate the implementation planning, construction and commissioning of wind energy and photovoltaic systems as well as the construction of transformer stations through to grid connection in accordance with all legal regulations.

Municipal Heat Planning: Use waste heat from data centre

Interview: greenwind’s Municipal Heat Planning (KWP) team is currently working on three projects in collaboration with the municipalities of Brieselang, Falkenberg/Elster (both in Brandenburg) and Mansfeld (Saxony-Anhalt).

From petroleum gas to hydrogen – and greenwind’s Ely

The greenwind TH2ECO team (photo from left: Kilian Fromm, Anke Kuckuck and Philipp Geuss) in action during Hydrogen Week!

Cooperation for optimum measuring campaigns

greenwind’s cooperation with windpower-concept GmbH (WPC) is bearing fruit. Thanks to practical and theoretical training from the experts at Green Wind Engineering, WPC can now implement two measurement methods directly into wind farms:

There’ll be a new forest here!

Around 10,000 new trees: a two-hectare new forest is growing in Dannenberg, Brandenburg, as part of a compensatory measure for the construction of a greenwind wind turbine.

Our supply concepts for the energy transformation in industry and commerce

Direct delivery, direct supply, integrated energy system – in the short, medium or long term. Choose yourself how you want to tackle your energy transformation.

Sophie Kolb: “Appreciation for the greenwind team!”

Interview: Sophie Kolb is planning the employee-owned wind turbine from greenwind, Freudenberg Nord (Brandenburg) – a V 150/5.6 MW with a total height of 244 metres.

“Our measuring methods prevent costly downtimes!”

Georg Meyer becomes the new Managing Director of Green Wind Operations GmbH.

Noise optimization – A sucessful case study

Operating noise from wind turbines must be reduced to a minimum in order to ensure the acceptance of wind energy in neighboring residential areas.

One for all! V 150 belongs to the entire greenwind team.

All employees in the greenwind Group become wind turbine operators themselves – and with all the ups and downs! Two years ago the ‘Freudenberg Nord’ site near Berlin was chosen, assigned to the Freudenberg-Süd wind park.

N133/4.8 ready for operation in Schrepkow

The N133/4.8 wind turbine in greenwind’s Schrepkow wind park (in the Gumtow/Brandenburg municipality) has been erected. Start-up can be carried out as soon as the grid operator Edis issues the system certificate required for the feed-in licence.

Two 246.6 m high Enercons and two hectares of new forest

greenwind’s repowering project in Beeskow is entering the home straight.

The structure’s on the move!

And by day and night. At the moment it’s the 79.35 m long rotor blades of the V162, 6.0 MW, which were delivered overland from the manufacturer Vestas in Cuxhaven to the Werder-Zinndorf wind park in the Rehfelde municipality (district of Märkisch-Oderland/Brandenburg).

Wind turbine with rotor blade problems? Rapid help is needed!

The run-up: With the help of a crane a new rotor blade had been installed on the rotor of a damaged turbine, but after the restart, the system suffered from extremely high vibration levels.

Technical Operations Management

Less downtime thanks to cooperation with EMIS – When an unforeseen outage occurred at the Eichow wind farm, our Technical Operations Management was able to find a swift solution in collaboration with EMIS...

greenwind in Rostock

The greenwind Group has now opened a new location in Rostock, the hub and centre of wind energy, managed by our site manager Frank Scharp (photo).

TOM increases to over 600 MW

At the start of 2025 the signs are on go for greenwind’s Technical Operations Management (TOM): 12 wind turbines with 31 MW expand the portfolio, bringing it to well over 600 MW.

Daniel Graßmann is new head of greenwind commercial management

The sun supplies the sparrow’s nest

“Our 'Spatzennest' [Sparrow’s Nest] has been powered by the sun’s energy since summer,” says a very pleased Mrs Kelm, head of the daycare centre in the Wolfshagen district of Groß Pankow (Prignitz, Germany). The green power supply facility was financed by Vormark e.V., a non-profit organisation that promotes energy-saving activities in the Groß Pankow municipality.

Schorfheide residents help shape heat planning with greenwind

Wilhelm Westerkamp, mayor of the district of Schorfheide (photo, centre) wasn’t quite certain: how many of his community members from Finowfurt, Lichterfelde and Groß-Schönebeck would be prepared to take part in the stakeholder participation programme for municipal heat planning with greenwind?

greenwind expert forum at the HTW

greenwind continues its information series this year for industrial engineering students at Berlin’s University of Applied Sciences (HTW).

Donation for five H2 qualifications

Jacob Fengler from greenwind attended the donation ceremony at the Ukrainian embassy along with other H2Eco Award winners, and a cheque for 15,000 euros was handed over.

V162, 6.0 MW – our most powerful turbine yet is in the starting blocks!

Let’s get going! Construction work has begun for our highest-yield wind turbine to date, and site manager Maximillian Horn and project developer Sebastian Olbrich are rearing to go! (Photo)

At a massive height: measurement campaigns

Installing temporary test masses on a rotor may seem complex – our colleagues Viktor Morell and Johannes Fischer (see photo) are not thrill seekers though but analytical measurement engineers.

Solved: The problems of the V80 in Timpberg

The Vestas V80 wind turbine (commissioned in 2004) at the wind farm in Timpberg (Brandenburg) has a long history of problems.

Approved: V162, the most powerful

After arduous wrangling, one of the most powerful wind turbines has now been granted approval!

Wind and sun: cooperation between greenwind and dHb

Green Wind Energy GmbH and dHb Solarsysteme GmbH have concluded a cooperation agreement in the field of hybrid projects.

Repowering: 8 x Beeskow, 1 x Schrepkow

greenwind is currently increasingly repowering in Brandenburg, Germany.

Turbine with 100 points!

For the first time in and on a newly constructed turbine: during initial inspection our Technical Operations Management team scrutinises around 100 points on a newly erected turbine in the wind park, taking photos and making notes.

TH2ECO: cross-regional H2 connection faster than planned

The regional hydrogen project TH2ECO, with greenwind as one of four founding partners, is expanding faster than plan.

Could that be a job for me? A field visit with IQ Green.

Some of the participants in the “IQ Green” project are now in a better position to answer this question after the greenwind group’s technical operations management team joined them for a visit in the field and at a wind turbine in a greenwind wind farm in Brandenburg.

We call it ELY. Our 10 MW electrolyzer for green hydrogen!

greenwind’s first electrolyzer for the production of green hydrogen is set to be installed in Dachwig in Thuringia state in eastern Germany.

Martin Peters: Early measurement can save hundreds of thousands of euros!

In his role as the new Head of Metrology at Green Wind Engineering GmbH, Martin Peters is the point of contact for the technical aspects of engineering.

Commissioning is a certainty: Green Wind Construction

The good times are back for solar energy!

As spring officially begins in the northern hemisphere, we finally get to enjoy more hours of daylight than darkness.

Three wind turbines commissioned and further construction kicked off!

Since the beginning of the year, the new Green Wind wind farm in Beiersdorf-Freudenberg (Brandenburg, Märkisch-Oderland district) has been producing green electricity with three powerful wind turbines.

Georg Meyer Appointed CEO of Green Wind Operations GmbH

Georg Meyer is the new CEO of Green Wind Operations GmbH.

Heating planning and energy concepts

The energy transition goes beyond the electricity sector.

How does electricity get to the grid?

Who knows how green electricity gets to the grid? Christoph Harwalik from our project development team!

Measured: Lisa in the field

It’s go time! Lisa Neufeld, student trainee at Green Wind Engineering, is preparing a video survey of two Repower turbines at the wind farm in Klein-Mutz.

Meet Miloš Wimhöfer!

Interview

Freudenberg Awarded: Every Wind Turbine Counts

The German Federal Network Agency has awarded Green Wind Energy the contract for a Nordex N149/5.7 in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg.

Converter platform DolWin gamma: outage campaign at sea.

More than 100 people and 840 jobs – The pinnacle of the onshore and offshore maintenance of DolWin3

Meet Green Wind in Husum!

Between September 12 and 15 in Husum, we will focus on how we can introduce wind power into the energy transition.

Measurements in Norway

The wind farms among the fjords in central Norway offered the crew from Green Wind Engineering a particularly attractive panorama.

Maria: “A performance I stand behind”

Maria Fahrland is the new HR manager at Green Wind.

The full Green Wind program for HTW students!

A wide range of onshore and offshore wind energy!

N133 contract award and a 1st hybrid tower

Green Winds Project Development has now been awarded a contract for an N133/4.8 MW wind turbine by the manufacturer Nordex.

Thumbs up for Green Wind Operations!

We recently carried out a customer satisfaction survey in the technical management area of Green Wind Operations.

How hydrogen works: From generation to consumption

The Thuringian hydrogen project TH2Eco (Video)

From suffering in the tower top

Dr.-Ing. Christoph Heilmann, Head of Research and Development at Green Wind Engineering, is no desk jockey.

Green Wind Takes On Operational Responsibility

Green Wind is assuming operational responsibility for an Enercon E126 at the Kessin wind farm in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

15 Million EUR for Thuringian TH2ECO Hydrogen Project

Up to EUR 15 million have been pledged for our Thuringian TH2ECO hydrogen project as part of the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV)’s National Investment Program for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology.

Realizing the first solar power plants

How it all started: Our solar power expert Natalie Klette (right) and student trainee Melanie Graf taking a measurement in Plänitz-Leddin.

Green Wind Innovation wins H2Eco Award for TH2ECO

Green Wind Innovation wins H2Eco Award for TH2ECO!

Women in wind energy and leadership positions – nothing out of the ordinary here!

“Putting our hearts and minds into protecting the climate as part of our work is what drives us."

Green Wind is building 3 Nordex: everything according to plan!

Our Green Wind team with site manager Maximilian Horn is currently building three Nordex wind turbines in Freudenberg Central and South in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg.

New team member: Sascha, a lawyer from Ukraine

He, his wife and their four children fled quickly from Kyiv a year ago.

Manuel Lasse hands over WindNOW! management

The founder of WindNOW! GmbH, Manuel Lasse, is leaving the management of the full-service provider.

We are working on it!

The nationwide approval process for onshore wind turbines "now urgently needs to get moving," says BWE.

Sarah Behrens and Katharina Haupt to lead new company

The managing directors Sarah Behrens and Katharina Haupt (photo left) will be the dual leadership team for the newly founded Green Wind Managing GmbH, a unit of the Green Wind Group headquartered in Berlin.

Control room team expands into Hungary and Poland

The greenwind control room team headed by Enrico Berger is always hard at work for onshore and offshore projects.

TH2ECO: HyPerformer application

An application for HyPerformer funding has now been submitted for Thuringia’s largest hydrogen project, TH2ECO, in which Green Wind is one of the key partners.

Green Wind Acquires 16 Turbines in Denmark

Green Wind is continuing its successful cooperation with Danish investors: At the beginning of the year, Green Wind took over 16 existing Danish wind turbines from Danish cooperation partners.

Wind Energy Days: GW Forum 12 with Prof. Twele

About 2,500 participants have registered to attend the 30th Wind Energy Days from November 8 to 10, 2022 in Linstow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Green Wind Engineering elected to BWE Committee

Green Wind Engineering and its managing directors Michael Melsheimer and Dr. Christoph Heilmann have been unanimously elected to the BWE Expert committee (Bundesverband WindEnergie).

More Electricity from Schrepkow Wind Farm

As one of the first operators in Brandenburg, the application filed by Green Wind to change guidelines for shadow flicker shut-downs and reducing noise levels at night on wind farms has now been approved.

Siegesmund: TH2ECO plays central role

Anja Siegesmund, Thuringia’s Minister for the Environment, Energy and Nature Conservation (on the right), welcomed more than 130 guests from the business community, research and government to the first TH2ECO hydrogen event in Erfurt.

Regional office North opens in Lübeck!

Green Wind Energy GmbH has opened its Northern Germany regional office in Lübeck.

New to the team

With our growing responsibilities comes a growing high-performing Green Wind team.

Wind farm Schrepkow: MW output doubled!

The new Green Wind wind farm in Schrepkow is delivering results!

Freudenberg: Two become one!

Approval under the German Immission Control Act (BImSchG) has been obtained for a further wind project of Green Wind Energy GmbH in the municipality of Beiersdorf-Freudenberg.

DolWin3: 40 people on site!

Together with OIS Offshore Industrie Service GmbH, Green Wind Offshore carries out the scheduled servicing campaigns in the ARGE O&M DolWin3 project eleven times a year.

Regional H2networks with Green Wind Innovation

What they do in Canada we can do here, too!

Bon Appetit!

There goes 8.5% of the whole!

Schrepkow: Approval after 4.5 months!

The approval process for the second construction phase of the repowering project at the Schrepkow wind farm proves that things can be done differently.

Contract for 2 WEA NORDEX N 163/5.7 wind turbines

Green Wind Energy has won a contract for feed-in remuneration from the German Federal Network Agency!

Green Wind Innovation in the Oberhavel H₂ Network

Green Wind Innovation and other stakeholders of the three northwestern administrative districts in Brandenburg have now joined forces to form the hydrogen network PROOH2V.

Green Wind awarded official seal for fair wind energy

The Thuringia Energy and GreenTech Agency (ThEGA) recently awarded Green Wind Energy its official seal for fair wind energy in Thuringia.

It’s worth it!

Green Wind Engineering measures vibrations and balances rotors, On- and Offshore.

Green Wind Engineering – So that everything runs smoothly!

Welcome to Green Wind Engineering.

KBF on tour

A different approach to turbine consulting!

Green Wind and Hydrogen

“We see green, regional hydrogen as the energy of the future that will make us independent."

Schrepkow project with Danish operators is moving forward

The expansion of the Schrepkow wind farm in Gumtow, Brandenburg, is making great visible progress.

Two Nordex wind turbines approved in Brandenburg

It’s another step in the right direction!

A Job that has meaning

Janina Menke, 30, technical operations management project engineer, Bachelor of Engineering

Solidarity and help

It is gladly and with full conviction that we join the large crowd of those who want to show their colours in public.

New Faces on the Green Wind Team

Why do people decide to join the Green Wind Group?

New operational management contracts with Palladio Partners

Green Wind Operations is currently expanding its operational management portfolio by adding plants in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Brandenburg.

Green Wind Innovation: Rethinking renewables!

Green hydrogen generation and intelligent sector integration