German turbine manufacturer Enercon and energy services provider EWE are to form a joint venture to work together on renewable energy and smart grid projects.
The JV has yet to be founded but the first stage of the collaboration is to supply Aurich with locally generated renewable energy.
The second stage will see the two partners “develop standardised and transferable elements of a building-block system for the energy turnaround, which can be quickly put together to form individual system solutions within other projects”.
EWE chief executive officer Matthias Brückmann said: “EWE and Enercon share the vision of decentralised energy supply systems that are largely based on renewable energies.
“Through a joint effort, this vision should become reality in the Aurich district and lead to innovative network system solutions that can then be successfully provided in other areas of Germany as well as in selected foreign markets.”
Enercon managing director Hans-Dieter Kettwig said: “By way of the innovative model of cooperation with the experienced network operator, EWE, Enercon shall have every opportunity to demonstrate the energy turnaround ‘building blocks’ in a real energy network and to test them in day-to-day network operations.
“Bidding for network concessions in the district of Aurich will thereby become a thing of the past, and Enercon can concentrate fully on providing innovative technologies and systems components.”
Image: Enercon turbine (Enercon)
