Nordex 2100MW in Orders, Ørsted Innovative Foundations

In this episode, Allen discusses Nordex's successful Q1 2025
turbine orders, Ørsted's innovative suction bucket jacket
foundations in Taiwan, and Europe's proposed offshore wind deal
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Market in intelligence that generates revenue, visit
www.intelstor.com. Leading off the week German wind turbine
manufacturer, Nordex secured orders for 2100 megawatts of turbines
in the first quarter of 2025. A 5% increase from the same period
last year. The company received contracts to deliver 337 wind
turbines for projects across 10 countries with Turkey, Germany,
Finland, Latvia, and Brazil being the largest markets. The average
sales price increased slightly to 870,000 euros per megawatt from
850,000 euros per megawatt a year earlier. CEO Jose Louise Blanco
expects this positive momentum to continue throughout 2025. Nordex
has installed approximately 57 gigawatts of wind [00:01:00] power
capacity in over 40 markets globally, and operates factories in
Germany, Spain, Brazil, India, USA, and Mexico. The first suction
bucket jacket foundation has been installed at Ørsted's Greater
Changhua 2B and 4 Offshore Wind Farm Site in Taiwan. The 920
megawatt project will comprise 66 Siemens Gamesa 14-236DD wind
turbines all mounted on suction bucket jackets foundations. This
marks the first large scale use of this foundation type in the Asia
Pacific region. According to Ørsted, the suction bucket jacket
design minimizes seabed disturbances, generates almost no noise
during installation, and can be fully removed at the end of the
wind farm's life. The foundations are being installed by Heerema
Marine Contractors, heavy lift vessel Aegir and supplied by HSG
Sungdong in South Korea and Petrovietnam Technical Services
Corporation in [00:02:00] Vietnam. Europe's wind industry has
proposed a new offshore wind deal calling on European governments
to auction at least 100 gigawatts of new offshore wind capacity
between 2031 and 2040. The proposal announced at Wind Europe's
annual event in Copenhagen. Recommends using two-sided contracts
for difference to provide revenue, stability, and reduce investment
risk. The plan calls for more coordinated offshore wind development
among European countries with capacity evenly distributed over time
at approximately 10 gigawatts annually. In return, the industry
commits to reducing offshore wind costs by 30% by 2040. Major
developers and suppliers, including Ørsted, RWE, Vattenfall
Iberdrola, Vestas, and Siemens Gamesa have signed the proposal
pledging to invest in projects, manufacturing capacity and
workforce development.