Pressrelease Bremen, 10 Dez. 2009

Third wind farm in Croatia to celebrate the opening Installation of wpd project Orlice

On Friday, December 11, 2009, there’ll be the grand opening of the wpd-owned wind farm

Orlice in Croatia. At 11 a. m. sharp, the grand opening will start. Croatia’s prime minister

Jadranka Kosor and the new Croatian Secretary of Commerce, Duro Popijac, will be present.

The eleven Enercon turbines with a capacity of 9.6 MW are situated some ten kilometres to

the south-east of the city of Sivenik. The wind farm will generate 21 million kWh of CO2-free

power – enough to supply a town of 20,000 inhabitants with green energy.

The erection of the Orlice wind farm is another milestone in the expansion of Renewable

Energies in Croatia. With the installation of the project, actually only the third wind farm in

Croatia at all has been connected to the grid this year. “We welcome the installation of the

wind farm which emphasises the engagement of the wpd group in Croatia and which is an

important signal for the further development of wind power in this country. Being one of the

leading European planning and operating company, Croatia is for us an important market

and we will implement further projects as soon as possible,” wpd Chairman Dr. Hartmut

Broesamle declares. Since March 2007, a tariff system for the furthering of renewable

energies, similar to the German EEG, provides for fixed feed-in remunerations for energy

generated from wind turbines.

Orlice wind farm. Eight Enercon E44 and three Enercon E48 take the profit from the elevated

coastal site.

Keyfacts wpd think energy GmbH & Co. KG

wpd is an international operator and developer of installations for the generation of

renewable energies, operating in 21 countries worldwide. So far, the wpd group has realised

wind farms with approximately 1,600 wind turbines and an output of 2 GW. With a pipeline of

7,000 MW onshore and 9,000 MW in the offshore segment, wpd is among Europe’s leading

developer of wind farms.

For questions please contact: Christian Schnibbe

- Manager PR & Marketing –

tel: +49 (0) 421 168 66 25

mail: c.schnibbe@wpd.de

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