Senvion

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Senvion SA
Type Société Anonyme
FWB:  SEN
Industry Renewable power
Founded2001
Headquarters Hamburg, Germany
Key people
Yves Rannou (CEO) [1]
Products Wind turbines
RevenueDecrease2.svg  1.89  billion (2017) [2]
Number of employees
4500 (2017) [3]
Parent Siemens Gamesa [4]
Website www.senvion.com

Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, majority owned by a private equity firm. Senvion as REpower Systems, as it was initially called, was established in 2001 through the merger of German wind companies: HSW (Husumer Schiffswerft), the engineering consultancy Pro+Pro (a subsidery of Denker&Wulf and aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH), the wind turbine manufacturer BWU and Jacobs Energie; and since April 2015 Centerbridge Partners. [5] [6] [7] [8] It was under the ownership of Suzlon, an India wind turbine manufacturer, from 2007 to 2015.

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With equipment pricing under pressure due to auctions, Senvion filed for insolvency in German courts in early April 2019. [9] Senvion sold its 9 GW European service fleet to Siemens Gamesa in October 2019. [10] A Saudi Arabia company acquired the India division of Senvion in 2021. [11]

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