Nordex Books First Austrian N175/6.X Order in 56 MW Repowering at Auersthal
WEB Windenergie has ordered eight N175/6.X turbines from Nordex to repower the Auersthal RI site in Lower Austria, the manufacturer's largest Austrian project to date, in the same week the group booked around 220 MW of European orders.
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Nordex has won a 56 MW order from the Austrian citizen-participation company WEB Windenergie AG, the manufacturer said. The contract covers delivery and installation of eight N175/6.X turbines, each rated at 7 MW, at the Auersthal RI repowering project in the district of Gänserndorf, where they will replace existing machines. The order includes a Premium Service agreement running 25 years, and commissioning is planned for 2028.
According to Nordex, these will be the first N175/6.X turbines installed in Austria, and Auersthal RI is the largest project the company has carried out in the country so far. The N175/6.X is based on the manufacturer's Delta4000 platform.
WEB Windenergie develops and operates renewable power assets with a focus on wind and works on a citizen-participation model; its total capacity stands at around 700 MW. "This is the first time we are installing turbines of this size," said Roman Prager, a member of the WEB Executive Board.
Karsten Brüggemann, Vice President Region Europe at Nordex Group, framed the technology in terms of site reuse, saying: "Modern wind turbines such as the N175/6.X make an important contribution to using existing sites more efficiently and further accelerating the expansion of renewable energy".
The Austrian market had 1,447 turbines with 4,221 MW of capacity at the end of 2025, according to IG Windkraft. Those machines produce 9.7 TWh a year, roughly 16 percent of national electricity consumption. During 2025, 48 turbines totalling 285.3 MW were commissioned, and the industry association forecasts 44 turbines and 251 MW for 2026.
Lower Austria carries the largest installed base in the country, with 830 turbines and 2,324 MW — more than half of Austria's total — ahead of Burgenland, where 446 turbines account for 1,488.7 MW. State lawmakers raised the province's wind generation target to 8,000 GWh by 2030 when they adopted an updated Climate and Energy Roadmap on 23 October 2025. Lower Austrian turbines generated around 5,400 GWh as of the end of 2025, about a third of the state's renewable power output. At federal level, the Renewable Energy Expansion Act calls for an additional 10 TWh of annual wind generation by 2030.
Permitting remains the variable. As of January 2026, IG Windkraft counted 3,405 MW in the Austrian pipeline: 1,612 MW in ongoing procedures, 1,436 MW approved at first instance and 357 MW pending before the Federal Administrative Court. The association's assessment is that, with those projects and suitable framework conditions, national capacity could nearly double by 2030.
Nordex's Austrian deal landed in the same week the group reported new orders of around 220 MW across Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, dated to the week of 30 September 2026. The Iberian and French portion covers 34 turbines with a combined 175 MW for projects whose customers and sites Nordex did not name, backed by multi-year service contracts. The turbine mix there spans eight N175/6.X, four N163/6.X, four N149/4.X, nine N133/4800 and nine N131/3600 machines, with installation and commissioning scheduled between 2027 and 2028.
In Germany, Navaris ordered 42 MW for the Lambacher Höh wind farm southwest of Bitburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, close to the Luxembourg border. That project pairs four N163/6.X turbines with a 164 m hub height and two N175/6.X units at 179 m, all mounted on hybrid towers, under a 20-year premium service contract. The first turbine is due in January 2028 and full commissioning is planned for July 2028. Navaris, the German platform of Spain's Qualitas Energy group that has operated under its current name since 17 September 2026, says it won awards for every bid it submitted in the 1 August 2026 onshore wind tender: 11 projects, 46 turbines and 304.5 MW combined, around 12 percent of the 2,523 MW awarded. The company manages roughly 1.3 GW in operation or under construction and more than 3 GW in advanced development.
The orders come against a strong European backdrop. WindEurope puts new capacity installed in the first half of 2026 at 8.8 GW, 30 percent above the year-earlier period, with onshore projects accounting for 74 percent. Onshore additions reached 6.5 GW, against 6 GW in the first half of 2025, while offshore contributed 2.3 GW — more than three times the 741 MW grid-connected a year earlier. Germany led the half-year ranking, followed by the UK with 789 MW, Spain with 612 MW, France with 556 MW, Denmark with 495 MW and Poland with 456 MW. German data compiled by IWR from the BNetzA Market Master Data Register show 513 turbines and 3,464 MW entering operation between January and June 2026, split into 429 onshore turbines with 2,387 MW and 84 offshore units with 1,077 MW.
Tenders awarded 17.2 GW of wind capacity in the first half of 2026, of which 8.8 GW was onshore and 8.4 GW offshore, and investment decisions worth EUR 9 billion were taken for new European wind farms, financing 5.2 GW including 4.5 GW onshore. Governments plan tenders for more than 24 GW in the second half of 2026. WindEurope expects 24 GW of new European capacity for the full year, up from 19.1 GW in 2025, and forecasts 148 GW of additions by 2030 — 111 GW of that in the EU — lifting installed capacity to 436 GW in Europe and 342 GW in the EU.
Nordex shares traded at EUR 39.68 in Stuttgart at 11:31 a.m. on Wednesday 30 September 2026, up 2.5 percent from EUR 38.70 the previous day. The stock stood at EUR 29.18 at the end of 2025, on 30 December, a gain of 36.0 percent year to date.