Axpo has announced the sale of four wind farms in France to Greencoat Renewables, a listed investor in renewable energy projects advised by Greencoat Capital. With this transaction, Axpo and its subsidiary Volkswind continue to deliver strong revenues from their extensive wind farm portfolio and development pipeline in France.
The sale includes 24 state-of-the-art wind power plants in the Centre-Val de Loire and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regions of central France. Equipped with Nordex, Vestas and Enercon turbines, the portfolio has a total installed capacity of 65.5 megawatts and consists of the wind farms Genonville (20.3 megawatts), Grande Pièce (19.8 megawatts), Arcy-Précy (16.0 megawatts), and Butte de Menonville (9.4 megawatts). Developed and commissioned by Volkswind between 2017 and 2022, their combined average annual production amounts to approximately 178,500 megawatt-hours of electricity. The parties have agreed not to disclose details regarding the sale price.