Deutsche Windtechnik plans to scale up its foreign operations, particularly in Spain, Poland and the UK.
By the end of the year, it will have 122 employees outside Germany, 43 more than at the start of 2015.
The company aims to increase the proportion of foreign revenue to 30% over the nexttwo to three years from 12% currently.
Deutsche Windtechnik has 80 employees at six service locations in Spain are already looking after around 600 wind turbines. It wants to increase its number of staff in the UK to 30 and aims in Poland to have wind turbines with a total output capacity of 400MW under contract by the end of 2016.
The company is also opening bases in Denmark, the Netherlands and France.
In September it created subsidiaries in the Netherlands and Denmark, while in France two wind farms under contract since autumn will initially be looked after by the German subsidiary seebaWind Service. However, a French subsidiary will be set up soon, Deutsche Windtechnik said.
Deutsche Windtechnik chairman Matthias Brandt said: “The French market has very great potential for us due to the exceptionally high proportion of Nordex and Senvion turbines there.
“Thanks to our takeover of seebaWind Service in June of this year we can now also provide competent service for these types of turbine.
The company has concluded a full maintenance contract for a wind farm with five Nordex N90 turbines close to the border in Momerstroff (Lorraine), while seebaWind will be taking over the 24/7 remote monitoring of the wind farm in La Renardière on the Atlantic coast, consisting of six Senvion MM92 turbines, and also supporting the customer’s own service team as required.
Image: wind turbine gearbox replacement (seebaWind)
