PNE AG (formerly Plambeck Neue Energie AG) is a German company based in Cuxhaven that develops wind farms on land and at sea (offshore).
The business model of PNE AG includes planning, building, financing, operating and selling of wind farms. Besides Germany, the company is also active in Hungary, France, Turkey and USA.
The company received the permission for the first own offshore project "Borkum Reef Ground" approximately four years after examination by the competent Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency) in February 2004. In August 2006 the construction of the offshore wind farm "Gode Wind I" was permitted. The permission for the offshore wind farm "Gode Wind II" was granted in July 2009. Thus, the company may set up approximately 160 wind turbines in the North Sea with a total capacity of up to 637 MW. Another offshore wind farm "Gode Wind III" is in development and has been sold along with the wind farm Gode Wind I-II to the Danish energy company DONG Energy.
Until December 2010 PNE had built 97 onshore wind farms with 563 wind turbines and a total capacity of 804 MW. 299 wind turbines with a total capacity of 462 MW and 2 biogas plants with a total of 1 MW were in the operational management.
History
In 1979, Norbert Plambeck and his father Otto Plambeck founded a group of companies. This group included the "Windpark Marschland GmbH" in 1995, which changed its name in 1998 to Plambeck Neue Energien AG as a company limited by shares (Aktiengesellschaft).
For more than 30 years, it has been a been an experience for project developers in the area of onshore and offshore wind farms.