Nordex Group installs the first N163/5.X turbine

The Nordex Group has installed the first N163/5.X turbine in the Delta4000 series as planned in the citizen wind farm "Janneby" in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the  company said in a statement.

The turbine has an approx. 80-metre rotor blades and a rotor sweep of 20,867 square metres. The company claimed it is “the most efficient Nordex turbine in the 5MW class” for moderate and light-wind sites.

"To date we already have orders for the N163/5.X for 520 turbines with a capacity of approx. 3.0 GW from numerous customers for projects in Australia, Brazil, the Nordic region, Germany and Italy. This once again underlines the high level of confidence in the turbine technology of our Delta4000 series with its variable maximum capacity, which has been available since 2017,” José Luis Blanco, CEO of the Nordex Group said in the statement. 

The N163/5.X has already been awarded international IEC certification in the form of a Design Evaluation Conformity Statements, DECS, for hub heights of 118, 148 and 159 metres.