EANS-News: PNE WIND AG is making considerable progress towards the grid connection of the "Gode Wind II" offshore wind farm

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Contracts/Offshore wind farm

Cuxhaven (euro adhoc) - 28th February 2011 - The wind farm developer,
PNE WIND AG (ISIN: DE000A0JBPG2), has made considerable progress on
the way to constructing the offshore wind farm "Gode Wind II": The
documentation required for the binding agreement to the grid
connection has been submitted to the transmission grid operator
TenneT. This means that PNE WIND AG has fulfilled all four criteria
in the German Federal Network Agency´s position paper on the
maintenance of the unconditional grid connection agreement. This
agreement is given by the responsible transmission grid operator,
TenneT, specifying the grid connection date, when the current call
for tender for the supply of the grid connection components has been
completed. This progress in the project´s development has created the
prerequisite for being able to begin the construction of the offshore
wind farm "Gode Wind II" in 2012 as planned.

The following documents have now been presented for the construction
of "Gode Wind II":

- Supply contract for 84 Vestas type V112 wind energy systems. -
Preliminary contract for the supply of 84 monopile foundations by MT
Højgaard A/S. - Preliminary contract for the supply of the internal
wind farm cabling by Draka Norsk Kabel AS. - Preliminary contract for
the supply of the wind farm´s transformer station by ALSTOM Grid
GmbH.

PNE WIND AG had already fulfilled the first three criteria of the
German Federal Network Agency´s position paper as early as September
2010. At that time, the approval, the construction schedule and
evidence of the construction site subsoil analysis for all of the
locations for the 84 offshore plants in the "Gode Wind II" wind farm
were submitted. On this basis, TenneT gave its conditional grid
connection agreement on 2nd November 2010 and commenced the call for
tender process for the supply of the grid connection components.

Significant progress was also made with regard to the financing.
Thus, after a round of presentations to renowned European banks, a
number of written expressions of interest (Letters of Support) are
available for financing the wind farm.

Company profile

PNE WIND AG with its headquarters in Cuxhaven develops and implements
wind farm projects on land (onshore) and at high sea (offshore). Its
core competence is the development, planning, implementation and
financing of wind farms and their operation or sale including
subsequent service. So far, the company has set up 97 wind farms with
563 wind energy systems and a total nominal output of 804 MW.

Alongside its business activities in the established German home
market, PNE WIND AG is also increasingly investing in dynamic growth
markets and has subsidiaries and representations via joint ventures
in Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, the UK, USA and Canada. Wind
farm projects with a nominal output of about 3,450 MW are currently
being processed in these countries and are to be implemented in the
medium term. In Germany (onshore) currently wind farm projects with a
nominal output of more than 800 MW are being processed.

Furthermore, PNE WIND AG develops offshore wind farm projects, three
of which have already been approved in German waters. Entering
promising foreign markets is also being examined for the offshore
area.

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Further inquiry note:

PNE WIND AG
Press and Public Relations
Rainer Heinsohn
Tel: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 4 53
Fax: +49(0) 47 21 - 7 18 - 3 73
E-mail: info@pnewind.com

Investor Relations
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Ulrich Wiehle / Alexandra Edinger
Tel: +49(0)611 - 205855-16
Fax: +49(0)611 - 205855-66
E-mail: wiehle@cometis.de

Branche: Alternative energy
ISIN: DE000A0JBPG2
WKN: A0JBPG
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