WKN Windkraft Nord AG (‘WKN’) has sold the Wehrhain wind farm in Brandenburg (East Germany), with a total output of 16 megawatts, to DIF Infrastructure II B.V., a Dutch investment fund, managed by DIF.

 

DIF Infrastructure II acquired 100% of the shares of the wind farm which has been developed by WKN, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BGZ-Group. BGZ-Group
will remain involved in the wind farm as the operational manager.
Construction of the eight Vestas V90 / 2.0 megawatt turbines, each with a hub height of 105 metres, is complete and they have been operational since the end of May 2009. Wehrhain is situated approximately 80 kilometres south of Berlin.
The wind farm, supplies some 8,000 households with environmentally friendly electricity. The special feature of the project is the infra-red installation at height of 45 metres on each tower. The reason for this is the location of the wind farm
in the airspace of a military airport, where helicopters regularly carry out low-level flights. The installation of the infra-red lights enables the helicopter
pilots to pinpoint the location of the turbines during night flights. “With the night vision device, the pilot can see the turbines in good time,” said WKN Project Manager Björn Awiszus.

 

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