Comelf is one of the few industrial companies in Romania making profit from the wind power boom that started on this market in 2009. Wind farm capacity stood at 14 MW in 2009 and in the meantime has reached 1,165 MW distributed over more than 500 turbines, most of them in Dobrogea (SE Romania), which is higher than the capacity of Cernavoda nuclear plant reactor (in the same part of the country), after EUR1.7 billion investments.
“We began manufacturing of a small number of parts for use in wind power generation equipment weighing 0.5 to 50 kilos each and now have developed this line of manufacturing and are making complex metallic structures of up to 3,500 kilos,” says Dorin Stoian, general manager of Comelf, the company that posted 142.1 million lei (EUR32 million) in revenue last year, up 29% on 2010.
Comelf Bistrita’s general manager says the entire production of wind power generation equipment components goes to Siemens Wind Power in Denmark, adding that he did not have any information about any such parts made his company having been installed in a Romanian wind farm. (EUR1=RON4.4635)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)