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28 November 2023

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RWE and partners win 119MW French onshore wind tenders

Three of the five tenders RWE has won are 100% owned by the company and two are being developed with partners.

German electric utility RWE has won five onshore wind tenders in the latest bidding round held in France, with 119MW of gross capacity and 80MW pro-rata capacity.

The company secured the five projects from France’s Commission for the Regulation of Energy.

Three are 100% owned by RWE and two will be developed with partners Vent du Nord and David Energies/Energiter.

Across 13 onshore wind power tenders in the country, RWE won a total of 384MW, becoming the third most awarded company.

It now plans to install 37 wind turbines across the regions of Centre-Val de Loire, Hauts-de-France, Pays de la Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.

Construction is expected to commence by the end of 2024, with operations beginning in 2025.

RWE Renewables Europe and Australia CEO Katja Wünschel stated: “I would like to congratulate the teams who have achieved these results in a complex market. These five winning projects with our partners underline once again how effective our strategy in France is.

“We owe this to our experienced team, which manages a large portfolio of development projects. Our ambition is to promote competitive projects that are very well integrated into their local areas with the aim to make energy transition a reality.”

In September 2023, the German company received a development consent order in the UK for its Awel y Môr wind farm off the coast of north Wales.

Set for completion before 2030, Awel y Môr will power 500,000 homes.

The project will sit next to the 576MW Gwynt y Môr wind farm and is being developed by RWE in a joint venture with Stadtwerke München and Siemens Financial Services.

Renewable technologies continue to account for a significant share of the global energy mix

The push for a transition to cleaner energy, driven by strong policies and financial support, will heavily impact the future of renewables, allowing them to take almost 50% of the power mix by 2035. From a regional perspective, Europe and North America will continue to have an accelerated shift into clean technologies, whereas progress is slower in Asia-Pacific and specially Middle East where thermal technologies will still be their main power source. The development of new technologies such as hydrogen, energy storage, carbon capture and smart grids, are also driving change in the power sector.