buergerwind stroenfeld gmbh & co. kg

What buergerwind stroenfeld gmbh & co. kg does

Bürgerwind Strönfeld GmbH & Co. KG is a citizen-owned wind energy operating company domiciled in Wettringen, Kreis Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Amtsgericht Steinfurt HRA 6704). It operates four NORDEX wind turbines in the Strönfeld designated area of the municipality with a total installed capacity of 12 MW, generating renewable electricity sold under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) feed-in tariff regime and direct marketing arrangements. The project is paired with the sister Brechte project (also in Wettringen), and the combined 9-turbine / 27 MW portfolio is targeted to produce ~94 GWh per year, covering approximately 55% of Wettringen's total annual energy consumption and saving ~47,250 tonnes of CO₂ annually.

The company was developed under the formal Bürgerwindpark Leitlinien (citizen wind park guidelines) of Kreis Steinfurt, which require a minimum 25% private-citizen equity stake and broad community participation. Twenty-one landowners in the Strönfeld priority zone formed a civil-law partnership (GbR) in early 2012 to advance the project; the operating GmbH & Co. KG (with its general partner Bürgerwind Strönfeld Verwaltungs GmbH) was subsequently founded in 2014. Capital structure combines €4.2 million in equity raised from local citizens acting as Kommanditisten (limited partners) at a €1,000 minimum subscription — fully subscribed in 2016 — with debt financing arranged through regional Sparkassen and Volksbanken.

Distribution is community-led: investor acquisition uses public Bürgerversammlungen (citizen assemblies), the company's website (buergerwind-wettringen.de), the buergerwindbeteiligung.de online participation portals, regional press coverage (Münsterländische Volkszeitung, Grafschafter Nachrichten), and BaFin-reviewed prospectuses. Three managing directors — Michael Brümmer, Thomas Werning, and Andreas Feldkamp — handle direct investor relationships. Strategically, the Strönfeld project is one half of the Wettringen twin-project initiative and sits inside the broader Kreis Steinfurt "Energie.ST – Zukunftskreis Steinfurt – energieautark 2050" framework, alongside the adjacent Bürgerwindpark Steinfurt/Hollich and Windpark Bilk/Ohne (Samtgemeinde Schüttorf).

Name

buergerwind stroenfeld gmbh & co. kg

Legal name

Bürgerwind Strönfeld GmbH & Co. KG

Website

https://buergerwind-wettringen.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Bürgerwind Strönfeld GmbH & Co. KG is a citizen-owned wind energy operator in Wettringen, Germany, running four NORDEX turbines (12 MW) under EEG tariffs to serve the regional grid, with local residents participating as equity investors (Kommanditisten) and landowners as development partners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Onshore Wind Energy Generation

NAICS

Wind Electric Power Generation (221115)

SIC

Electric Services (4911)

akta.pro primary industry

Onshore Wind Power Generation (Utility-Scale) (EUACAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Wind Farm Ownership & Operations (IPP/Utility-Owned Asset Operations) (EUACAFAF)

Keywords

• Onshore wind energy
• Citizen wind park
• Community energy investment
• Wind power generation
• Renewable electricity

Headquarters

HQ city

Wettringen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Electricity generation and sales: The company operates nine wind turbines (five in Brechte and four in Strönfeld) and generates revenue through the sale of electricity produced by wind energy. Revenue is derived from feed-in tariffs under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) and direct marketing arrangements. Additional revenue may arise from the sale of guarantees of origin or green electricity certificates.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Bürgerwind Strönfeld GmbH & Co. KG operates a citizen-owned onshore wind park in the Strönfeld area of Wettringen, Germany, consisting of four NORDEX wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 12 MW. The company generates and sells electricity under the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) feed-in tariff regime while offering local citizens the opportunity to participate as Kommanditisten (limited partners) with a minimum investment of €1,000 and projected 200% total distribution over 20 years.

Product overview

Bürgerwind Strönfeld GmbH & Co KG operates a citizen-owned wind park (Bürgerwindpark) in the Strönfeld area of Wettringen, Germany. The company manages one wind energy project with 4 wind turbines generating a total capacity of 12 Megawatts. This community wind initiative operates under the citizen participation guidelines of Kreis Steinfurt, allowing local citizens to become shareholders and co-owners of the wind park. The project is part of the broader Wettringen citizen wind initiative alongside the separate Bürgerwind Brechte project, both contributing to the municipality's goal of achieving energy self-sufficiency through wind energy.

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Products and services

• Bürgerwind Strönfeld Windpark A citizen-owned onshore wind park in the Strönfeld area of Wettringen municipality, consisting of four NORDEX wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 12 megawatts. Generates renewable electricity sold under the German EEG feed-in tariff regime, while enabling direct community participation as Kommanditisten (limited partners) with a minimum investment of €1,000.

Quantifiable outcome

• 94,000,000 kWh/year of electricity production from 9 turbines (5 in Brechte + 4 in Strönfeld), covering ~55% of Wettringen's total energy consumption of 169,900,000 kWh/year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NORDEX Energy GmbHcoreTechnology or Integration · 24 October 2014NORDEX Energy GmbH is the turbine supplier for both citizen wind projects. Purchase contracts for wind turbines were signed in October 2014. The projects originally used older technology but were updated to more economical turbines with larger, slower-turning rotors that are quieter. The turbines for Strönfeld and Brechte were delivered and installed starting late 2015. Managing directors and representatives of both Wettringer citizen wind companies attended the contract signing ceremony.
• NLF Bürgerwind GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNLF Bürgerwind GmbH provides project development support and advisory services to both citizen wind companies. The organization consists of experienced citizen wind practitioners from within the Kreis Steinfurt. NLF representatives participated in key project milestones, including the NORDEX contract signing. Their involvement signals adherence to best practices in citizen wind development.
• Municipality of WettringencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe municipality of Wettringen fully supports both citizen wind projects and actively facilitates their realization. The municipality initiated the Teilflächennutzungsplan (partial land use plan) for wind energy and applied for the Zielabweichungsverfahren (deviation approval) at the Bezirksregierung Münster. The municipality's backing is critical for planning permission and community acceptance.
• Bürgerwindpark Steinfurt/HollichminorOthersThe Strönfeld wind project area is adjacent to the existing Bürgerwindpark Steinfurt/Hollich. The Strönfeld project is connected to the Steinfurt/Hollich substation (Umspannwerk) for grid integration, enabling shared grid infrastructure and synchronization of operations.
• Windpark Bilk und OhneminorOthersThe Brechte wind project area is located directly north of the existing Bilk and Ohne wind parks in the Samtgemeinde Schüttorf, at the border with Lower Saxony. Both projects form part of the northern expansion of wind energy in this cross-border region.
• Bezirksregierung MünstercoreOthersGranted approval for the Zielabweichungsverfahren (deviation approval) for the wind concentration zones in Wettringen in its session on June 24, 2013. Also issued the approval for the change to the Flächennutzungsplan (land use plan) in March 2014. These regulatory approvals are prerequisites for the projects' existence.
• Fachhochschule Münster (FH Münster)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerContributed the scientific foundation for the Wettringen citizen wind projects through the three-year 'Energie.ST – Zukunftskreis Steinfurt – energieautark 2050' research project. FH Münster created municipal profiles for all 24 municipalities in the Kreis Steinfurt, including Wettringen's energy balance. The study provided the data basis for the 55% energy coverage target and CO₂ savings estimates.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• juwi AG: Major German renewable energy developer and IPP with significant onshore wind and solar portfolio. Comparable insofar as juwi develops and operates utility-scale renewable assets in Germany using the same EEG framework; relevant as a benchmark for project economics, O&M service offerings, and potential acquirer of mature citizen wind assets like Strönfeld.
• Greenpeace Energy eG: German cooperative energy company that invests in and markets power from member citizen wind and solar projects. Operates as both a generation IPP and electricity retailer with strong ideological alignment to Strönfeld's renewable-community model, though with substantially broader geographic scope and product set.
• PNE AG: German wind and solar project developer, operator, and IPP with a multi-GW pipeline across Europe. Comparable to Strönfeld as an onshore wind operator within the same EEG regulatory regime; relevant for valuation benchmarking of mid-life German wind assets and as a potential secondary-market consolidator of Bürgerwindpark portfolios.
• EWS Elektrizitätswerke Schönau: Pioneer German citizen-owned utility operating wind, hydro, and PV generation with full retail electricity supply. Demonstrates the scaled, retail-facing evolution of the same citizen-energy ethos underpinning Strönfeld's GmbH & Co. KG structure, though at materially larger scale (~200+ employees and broad customer base).
• Bürgerwerke eG: German cooperative of ~80 citizen energy projects that aggregates and markets renewable electricity from member Bürgerwindparks and Energiewende projects. Strönfeld benefits from this ecosystem via the Kreis Steinfurt network; the cooperative represents the natural marketing and channel partner for community-owned German wind generation.
• ABO Wind AG: Established German wind and solar project developer with deep experience in German onshore wind permitting, citizen participation, and BImSchG approvals. Operates at a much larger scale than Strönfeld but uses similar project-development, permitting, and bank-financing playbooks and is a comparable reference point for institutionalizing the citizen-wind model.

Regional players

• Windpark Bilk und Ohne: Existing wind park to the north of the Brechte site, in Samtgemeinde Schüttorf across the Lower Saxony border. Operates an onshore wind generation fleet adjacent to the Wettringen projects and shares cross-border grid coordination dynamics, though governed under different state-level regulations.

Emerging players

• NLF Bürgerwind GmbH: Kreis Steinfurt-based developer of citizen wind parks that acted as Strönfeld's project development partner. Comparable business in assisting GbR landowner groups with planning, permitting, and NORDEX procurement under the same Leitlinien framework, making it a direct operational peer for the development-services aspect of the business.

Direct peers

• Bürgerwind Brechte GmbH & Co. KG: Sister-project citizen wind park in the same Wettringen municipality, co-developed and co-marketed via the same buergerwind-wettringen.de site. Operates 5 turbines / 15 MW on the adjacent Brechte area, shares the same Kreis Steinfurt Leitlinien framework, NORDEX supplier, managing-director governance model, and BaFin-reviewed citizen participation structure.
• Bürgerwindpark Hollich (Steinfurt): Adjacent southern-neighbor Bürgerwindpark in the Hollich area of Steinfurt, connected to Strönfeld via the shared Steinfurt/Hollich substation. Operates a comparable onshore wind generation footprint under the same Kreis Steinfurt citizen wind Leitlinien, making it the closest geographic and structural peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

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Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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