Company

The WestWind Group of companies was launched with the establishment of the Wind Park Lemke in the community of Marklohe in Germany in 1999.

What started as a private project quickly led to a thriving business. The idea of cooperating with investors to combine profitability and environmental protection has proven to be successful and by the end of 2005 more than 100 wind turbines had been commissioned in Germany by the WestWind Group. Today well over 300MW of wind energy projects have been delivered by WestWind in Germany and most of them are operated under the company’s management.

The idea of expanding the activities of the WestWind Group of companies internationally took shape in 2003. At the invitation of the Victorian and Australian Commonwealth governments the potential for establishing a new business in Australia was investigated and WestWind Energy Pty Ltd was established in 2004.

WestWind Energy Pty Ltd is an Australian company dedicated to the development, construction and operation of wind farms and other renewable energy projects in Australia and benefits from the experience of the WestWind Group in Germany. This encompasses project development, finance and project delivery in various forms including full turn-key delivery under an EPC contract.

The WestWind Group is run by engineers with a desire to use their technical skills to improve the environment and operate a financially sustainable business at the same time. The power from the wind and the sun can be utilised cost efficiently today to generate electricity at small and large scales. These attributes make it possible to build utility scale renewable energy power stations as well as industrial, commercial and domestic scale embedded generation projects. The resulting emissions-free electricity contributes significantly towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. For example, a single wind turbine of the ‘multi-megawatt class’ (2.0MW or more output) produces approximately 7,000,000 kWh (or more) clean electricity each year – equivalent to the electrical energy consumption of approximately 1,300 average Victorian homes.