With the dismantling of an old turbine and the beginning of construction works for the erection of a Vestas V126 wind turbine, the repowering at the Gersdorf / Bernsdorf wind farm is to be completed. This turbine is scheduled to be installed in September and commissioned at the end of October this year. Contracts for financial participation according to § 6 EEG 2021 have been concluded with the surrounding municipalities.
A lot has happened in the wind farm in the last 20 years:
In 1998/99, a wind farm consisting of nine wind turbines of the type Nordex N54 was erected in the Gersdorf / Bernsdorf district. These wind turbines, which exceeded their planned lifetime of 20 years and have a capacity of 1 MW each, achieved an average annual energy production of 11,200 MWh. This allowed approximately 3,200 households to be supplied with renewable electricity.
Since 2016, Sabowind has started the gradual repowering at the Gersdorf / Bernsdorf wind farm. The erection of a first wind turbine of the type Enercon E92 in 2016 was followed by the erection of two wind turbines of the type Vestas V126 and V112 in the following year.
In order to be able to erect another four powerful wind turbines of the type Vestas V126 with a hub height of 166m and an output of 3.45 MW, four wind turbines of the type Nordex N54 had to be dismantled. This dismantling also took place in stages in 2019 and 2021/22.