Windpark Kattenberg BV

Windpark Kattenberg BV is a Netherlands-registered company whose name identifies it as the project vehicle for the Kattenberg wind farm. It appears in public company data as a Dutch entity, and its association with RWE — the German energy group whose corporate website is the source given for this entry — places it within the renewable-generation business that RWE has built over the past two decades. RWE describes itself as a leading supplier of renewables worldwide, with wind farms, solar power and battery storage facilities in many countries, and states that most of its core business is now green electricity. A project company such as Windpark Kattenberg BV is the typical legal form through which such assets are developed, financed, owned and operated: it holds the permits, grid-connection rights, land leases and financing for a single wind farm, while the parent group supplies engineering, procurement, operations and trading expertise. RWE's own account of its portfolio covers offshore and onshore wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, gas and lignite, and it operates through subsidiaries including RWE Renewables Europe & Australia, RWE Power and RWE Supply & Trading. Within that structure, Dutch wind assets sit in the group's European renewables portfolio. The Netherlands is one of RWE's established markets, alongside Germany, the United Kingdom and other European countries, and Dutch onshore wind farms contribute to the group's growing renewable output. Because Windpark Kattenberg BV is a single-purpose project company rather than a consumer-facing brand, public information about it is limited: it has no separate marketing identity, no retail products and no independent corporate history. Its significance lies in its function — as the legal and financial container for a wind farm that feeds electricity into the Dutch grid and supports RWE's target of climate neutrality by 2040, a target the company says has been certified by the Science Based Targets initiative. This dossier therefore treats Windpark Kattenberg BV primarily as an RWE-linked renewable-energy project entity in the Netherlands, and describes the parent group's business, history and positioning in more detail.

Windpark Kattenberg BV has no separately documented corporate history of its own; it exists as a project company, and its story is inseparable from that of its parent group, RWE. RWE's own corporate history begins in April 1898, when the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk was founded as a public company in Essen, Germany. At the end of the nineteenth century the use of electricity in agriculture, industry and private households was practically non-existent, but as RWE grew, electricity became a major product that brought prosperity and progress to generations of people. For much of the twentieth century RWE was a pioneer of the industrial society and one of Europe's largest utilities, built around coal, lignite, nuclear and gas generation. That model changed fundamentally in the twenty-first century. RWE describes itself as having undergone fundamental change and as now being a leading supplier of renewables worldwide, with wind farms, solar power and battery storage facilities in many countries; it states that most of its core business today is green electricity. The group has invested billions of euros in renewables and has entered hydrogen technology. Its portfolio spans offshore and onshore wind, solar, hydropower, biomass, gas and lignite, and it operates through subsidiaries including RWE Renewables Europe & Australia, RWE Power, RWE Supply & Trading and RWE Technology International, the last providing project management and engineering services from plant construction and dismantling to building modernisation and renewable-energy deployment. Within this transformation, the Netherlands became one of RWE's renewable markets, and Dutch onshore wind farms were developed through dedicated project companies. Windpark Kattenberg BV is one such vehicle: a Netherlands-registered company whose name ties it to the Kattenberg wind farm. Public company data records it simply as a Dutch company, and the RWE corporate website is the reference given for the entry. As a project company it would typically hold the site's permits, grid connection, land agreements and project financing, with the parent group providing procurement, construction, operations and power trading. RWE's procurement organisation is split into Renewables Procurement, Power/Generation Procurement and Central Procurement, reflecting the scale of the group's supply chain. RWE has also set out climate commitments: it aims for climate neutrality by 2040, and its strategy has been certified by the Science Based Targets initiative. In November 2025 the company cited the "whatif?" report by right°, which found that only five DAX companies were on track for Paris climate targets and confirmed RWE among them. RWE's chief executive Markus Krebber has publicly framed resilience and investment frameworks as the decade's defining energy challenges. For Windpark Kattenberg BV, these group-level developments define its context: it is a small legal entity through which a large listed group develops and operates Dutch wind capacity.

• 2026

  RWE's website highlights circular-economy planning for dismantled wind turbines and decommissioned power stations, and CEO Markus Krebber outlines 2026 energy trends.

• 2025

  RWE cites the right° "whatif?" report confirming it among only five DAX companies on track for Paris climate targets.

• 1898

  RWE's predecessor, Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk, is founded as a public company in Essen, Germany.

A single-purpose Dutch wind-farm project company within RWE's European renewables portfolio; not a consumer-facing brand.

• Onshore wind power

  Wind farms developed and operated in countries including the Netherlands, part of RWE's renewables portfolio.

• Offshore wind power

  Offshore wind farms listed among RWE's generation technologies.

• Solar power

  Solar generation within RWE's renewable portfolio.

• Battery storage

  Battery storage facilities operated alongside wind and solar assets.

• Hydropower, biomass, gas and lignite

  The wider generation mix RWE says covers the entire field of secure and clean energy supply.

1. 1RWE | Our energy for a sustainable life.rwe.com
2. 2The company history of RWErwe.com
3. 3Products and Servicesrwe.com
4. 4RWE Supplier portalrwe.com
5. 5Windpark Kattenberg BVwikidata.org