PNE AG: First wind farm in Sweden completed

  • Project with 25.2 MW erected 
  • Wind farm commissioned on schedule

Cuxhaven, February 28, 2019 - The internationally operating project developer PNE AG has completed the Swedish wind energy project Laxaskogen on schedule. The wind farm was developed by PNE and sold in 2017 to the German private investor Wirtgen Invest Energy GmbH. The wind farm was built by PNE group on behalf of the owner and has now been put into operation. The transaction and the construction phase have been accompanied for the investor by WiNRG GmbH, Hamburg.

The wind farm was built in the South of Sweden. Laxaskogen is located in a forest area continuously used for modern Swedish forest industry. The area is already well equipped with roads constructed and used by forest machines and transportations. Construction has been completed as agreed within the first quarter 2019 and could be concluded on schedule. 

Total installed capacity for the Laxaskogen wind farm is 25.2 megawatts. The wind farm consists of 7 turbines each with a capacity of 3.6 megawatts. WKN GmbH, a company of PNE group, who developed the project in a cooperation, was be responsible for the construction of the project.

Markus Lesser, CEO of PNE AG: “In this project we had very good und trustfully cooperation with the investor. The timely completion of the Laxaskogen wind farm demonstrates once again the high quality of PNE projects. Further wind farm projects in Sweden are already in the development phase.”