GE Vernova wins new German wind order as Heidenheim fleet grows to 74 MW

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GE Vernova said on Monday it has signed an order to supply three of its 5.5 MW onshore wind turbines to Stadtwerke Heidenheim for the Schlotberg-Jüchsen wind farm in Germany, the sixth project between the two companies.

The deal covers three 5.5 MW-158m turbines and a 20-year service agreement. Deliveries are due to begin in August 2027, with commissioning scheduled for December 2027, and the order was booked in the fourth quarter of 2026. With this order, Stadtwerke Heidenheim's fleet of GE Vernova turbines will grow to 74 MW of installed capacity in Germany. The turbines will be built at GE Vernova's Salzbergen factory, one of the company's 13 locations across Germany.

For Heidenheim, getting the turbines on time matters. Raphael Kaim, the utility's head of renewable energy, said the project had a complex history and unexpected delays, and that timely construction and commissioning were of absolute importance to protect its viability. GE Vernova's Marcas Breatnach, executive sales leader for Northern Europe, said the company's workhorse machines had more than 38 million operating hours and over 2,100 units in service globally. GE Vernova says more than 59,000 of its turbines are operating worldwide.

The order is the company's own announcement, published as a press release on Monday, and no independent coverage of the deal had appeared when this story was written, so the figures, dates and the companies' account of the project should be read as GE Vernova's. What can be checked independently is the arithmetic: three turbines at 5.5 MW each add 16.5 MW, which fits the 74 MW fleet total the release cites for a sixth project adding to an existing fleet. The factory, the delivery dates and the service agreement all come from the same release.

For Heidenheim, the turbines' on-time arrival is the test, after delays already put the project at risk. For GE Vernova, the order is a small but concrete sign that its Salzbergen factory keeps winning domestic work as Germany pushes its wind build-out. The next marker is August 2027, when deliveries are due to start.