Max Bögl AG announces massive increase in production

03/09/2023

Source: Energy & Management Powernews

Energy Minister Robert Habeck systematically visits companies that can handle the accelerated energy transition. Max Bögl Wind, for example, is increasing the production of wind turbine towers.

Max Bögl AG, Germany's market leader in wind turbine towers, announced during a visit by Energy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) on March 8 that it would massively increase its production.

According to a statement from the concrete builder and technology company headquartered in Sengenthal in eastern Bavaria, Bögl is investing in a production facility in Emden this year to increase annual throughput from 400 to 600 wind turbine towers. In addition, Bögl is using an existing cooperation with Bettels Betonfertigteile GmbH in Emden. An expansion of capacities to 800 towers per year is already in preparation, this time at the main plant, he said. Bögl also manufactures its hybrid towers of stacked and lashed one-third rings near Rendsburg, close to the Kiel Canal.

Image: Max Bögl Group of Companies/Alex Fuchs

These are exactly the entrepreneurial stories to the liking of Robert Habeck, who says he wants to get a picture of how the renewable expansion figures "concretely mean a new value chain for Germany, not just with reports from his ministry and Excel spreadsheets. We should not only look at the energy side, but see that with the transformation a large growth potential is connected", said Habeck meaningfully before journalists in Sengenthal.

Alone 8,000 to 10,000 MW onshore wind are to be added annually in Germany, if the installed capacity is to double legally to 2030 on 115,000 MW. For this, Minister Habeck also needs entrepreneurial allies along the value chain, which he hopes will be able to handle the decided ramp-up.

In September 2022, he had visited the stand of wind turbine manufacturer Enercon at the Wind Energy trade fair in Hamburg. After the visit to Max Bögl, Habeck opened the International Crafts Fair (IHM) in Munich and emphasized the importance of crafts for the energy transition. According to reports, the Green politician systematically visits lighthouse companies from the renewable sector.

Habeck spoke of a market share of Bögl wind turbine towers of "about 50 percent today" in Germany. They are a world market-leading technology and an "innovation in the structural engineering sector that is second to none," he praised. He was "thrilled" by the "pragmatic determination" he found in Sengenthal. Habeck also took a look at the floating photovoltaic plant on Max Bögl's quarry pond. He said that wind power, in which Bavaria has "nobly held back" in recent years, will develop its own "momentum from below." The federal government, he said, will "increasingly make the benefits of renewables available" to municipalities, citizens and companies that participate in generation plants.

Author: Georg Eble