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“Top jobs” way up North
Comparative survey “Top Job”: Topnotch working conditions at the Husum-based project developer WKN AG / Wolfgang Clement congratulates
LeggiBayWa acquires major shares of WKN USA
BayWa AG is expanding its international operations by stepping up its activities in the field of renewable energies: The trading group has entered the wind power project business in the USA through its wholly-owned US subsidiary BayWa r.e USA LLC. BayWa r.e has acquired 70 percent of WKN USA, LLC from Windkraft Nord USA, Inc., a subsidiary of German based developer WKN AG. A stake of 30 percent in the shares in WKN USA will remain with WKN AG and the management.
LeggiEquiventus acquires shares of WKN AG Pipeline
The investment company Equiventus Capital S.a.r.l. has acquired a minority share of the wind energy projects from the project developer WKN Windkraft Nord with a total volume amounting to approximately 450 Megawatt. This business transaction pertains to locations in Italy and Poland. At the end of 2010 Equiventus already took over the 50- megawatt "Bardy" project in Poland from the Husum project developer. Equi-ventus Capital S.a.r.l. is a branch of Equiventus Holding S.A. with its headquarters in Luxemburg.
LeggiWind pioneer Volker Friedrichsen joins the Board of ...
After more than ten years as a member of the Board of Directors of the BGZ AG Volker Friedrichsen resigned his position as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) according to plan as of 31st December 2010. The sixty-four-year-old wind pioneer has joined the Board of Supervisors of the BGZ Group founded by Friedrichsen himself and remains its majority shareholder. With the establishment of WKN Windkraft Nord already in 1990 Friedrichsen had laid the foundation for the Husum company group. Before 2000 when the skilled banker began devoting himself completely to the further development of the company he had founded, Friedrichsen had been the Managing Director of the German subsidiary of the turbine manufacturer Vestas for ten years.
LeggiWKN Windkraft Nord closes 50 megawatts wind farm deal
Another WKN wind farm is being built in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Poland near the city of Koszalin. The 50 megawatts wind farm comprises 25 units of Vestas' model V90-2MW with a hub height of 105 meters. Vestas is the world market leader of supplying wind power plants. The combination of location with a wind speed of about 7.5 m/s at turbine hub height, project organisation as well as equipment technology from Vestas convinced the investor Equiventus Capital S.a.r.l. The company is a subsidiary of Equiventus Holding S.A., a global wind power investment fund based in Luxembourg.
LeggiMichael Ostwald appointed new CFO of the Husum-based ...
As per end of June 2010, Dr. Christian Kuhse resigns from his executive position as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the BGZ Beteiligungsgesellschaft Zukunftsenergien AG. This is due to reorganization within the executive board functions of the Husum-based company group. Dr. Christian Kuhse has been an active member of the management of the BGZ Group for the past two years.
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