Our company

With the founding of Deutsche Windtechnik Belgium B.V., we’re launching an independent service for wind turbines in Belgium. For the first time, we’re providing real alternatives to the turbine manufacturers for Belgian operators by offering flexible service options and comprehensive technical expertise. 

As part of our growth and realignment strategy, we have established Deutsche Windtechnik Europe GmbH. This new entity brings together all European units outside of Germany. By creating a clear structure and consolidating our strengths, we enhance collaboration and further expand our market position across Europe. 

With the opening of our new Training Center in Bissendorf, we strongly emphasise growth and training. Practical courses focused on Nordex and Senvion turbine technology enhance the technical expertise of our service teams. In addition to improving service quality, the new location will help reduce CO2 emissions by shortening the travel distances of our service technicians. 

The shortage of skilled workers is a challenge for us as well. In 2023, we combined and harmonised our training centres and the organisation of our numerous training and further education activities at the Deutsche Windtechnik Campus. We are gradually opening up and expanding the campus offering, partially in close cooperation with external partners, vocational schools, colleges and universities.

Interest in our maintenance for Enercon turbines is increasing every year. In 2023, we had more than 800 Enercon turbines under service contracts. We were able to expand our portfolio to include Enercon type E-101 and E-115 CS101a turbines and develop new repair solutions for E-70 and E-82. Maintenance contracts for Enercon turbines were signed for the first time in France.

The fields of AI and automation are experiencing major advancements, and drones are increasingly taking over some of the tasks involved in our work of inspecting rotor blades. In 2023, Deutsche Windtechnik's experts were among the first to successfully carry out a large-scale inspection campaign using drone technology, for example at the Butendiek offshore wind farm. 

For the first time, a German offshore wind farm is being retrofitted with an Aircraft Detection Light System: Our company was commissioned by the investors and operators of the Nordergründe offshore wind farm to equip the entire wind farm with ADLS. Deutsche Windtechnik is playing a pioneering role in the retrofitting of offshore wind farms from a single source.

24 mechatronics trainees will begin their vocational training at the Deutsche Windtechnik Training Center. This is an increase of 50 percent over the previous year. We are providing vocational training for 90 trainees in Germany alone, covering all three apprenticeship years. This is a record in the company's history.

Around the world, critical infrastructure is increasingly being threatened by cybercrime. We as well as other industry partners suffered an attack of this type, and it impacted our work for weeks. At no point in time were the wind turbines under our care endangered by the attack or did they suffer any damage.

The UK is at the top of the list of global offshore markets and is planning long-term investments in further expansion of offshore wind energy. Our entry into the offshore market as a high-performance, independent full-service provider with many years of offshore experience will increase the competition in the British service sector.

In addition to our focus on increasing internationalisation we welcomed our 2,000th employee at the end of the year.

The acquisition includes existing customer contracts, including 50 MW of Mitsubishi (MHI) wind turbines under long term service agreements, as well as 38 employees of this section that are now part of Deutsche Windtechnik.

Even though we know that the manufacturer Enercon offers good service in many areas, we begin providing maintenance for Enercon turbines at the request of many customers, thereby expanding our multi-brand expertise to include another leading turbine technology. Our services include complete maintenance for Enercon turbines, including repairing generator damage.

After North America, we turn our attention to the east and establish a new country unit in Taiwan, where wind energy is experiencing strong growth. At the Yunlin offshore wind farm, we take on a large part of the turbine services above and below water as well as the technical operations management and technical management.

Deutsche Windtechnik’s expert opinion department was one of the first providers in the wind industry to receive the globally recognised award for an independent inspection body in accordance with DIN EN ISO/IEC 17020. With this certificate, Deutsche Akkreditierungsstelle GmbH (DAkkS) confirms that Deutsche Windtechnik not only possesses the necessary objectivity but also a high level of competence of its employees in the preparation of expert appraisals as part of technical inspections of wind turbines.

Coinciding with our international growth, we present a new corporate branding at the Husum Wind trade fair. In addition to our reworked corporate design including the new trademark, the relaunch focuses in particular on large-format photos of our employees in their highly specialised work areas.

The US market now comprises an installed capacity of more than 100 GW, and this offers significant potential for maintenance activities. As a multi-brand specialist for turbines from Vestas, Siemens, Nordex, Senvion and Gamesa, we already have expertise in approximately half of the turbine technologies used in the USA at the point in time that we enter the market. We also want to make the advantages of independent turbine service accessible to American operators and investors. The American country unit Deutsche Windtechnik Inc. is established in Houston, Texas.

Our Training Center with its focus on system engineering is unique: Our service technicians receive further training here in the fields of electrical engineering, mechanics, hydraulics, control and operation in nacelles from the manufacturers Vestas, AN Bonus, Enercon and Senvion that are installed on the ground. But we also provide individual training courses for operators. One of the benefits of the practical training courses is that they help to make the service market more transparent and to open it up further.

Our Swedish unit, which has been established in Varberg, now also offers Scandinavian operators, investors and energy suppliers a high-quality alternative to manufacturer service for the first time. The demand for independent turbine service is also increasing in the heart of Europe: We enter the French wind energy market, establishing a French business unit and signing a number of service contracts.

Deutsche Windtechnik and the Dutch-German group OutSmart have been working together since the summer of 2016. OutSmart has a lot of experience in the operational management of offshore wind farms as well as consulting competence in areas such as improving asset performance and negotiating direct offtake agreements.

The transition from fixed feed-in tariffs to competitive tenders that is now prescribed by the EEG amendment in Germany makes identifying and utilising cost savings potential increasingly important. The contract is awarded to the provider with the best offer. Our technological expertise enables us to offer our independent service as early as the planning phase and during the tendering process. This increases competition. We sign a contract to provide full maintenance for the Buchonia wind farm with nine Senvion 3.2M turbines, making us the first ISP in the world to take over complete service for a wind farm from the time it is commissioned.