Gaia-Wind A/S under new ownership

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On Monday 16 October 2006, a group of investors took over the Danish manufacturer of small wind turbines ‘Gaia-Wind A/S’.
The investors are committed to further improving the company’s product and will drive forward the international expansion of the company.

The 11 kW Gaia-Wind turbine was developed 10 years ago, in-keeping with the ‘Danish design’ - well known as the design basis for large wind turbines. Since then, some 150 Gaia-Wind turbines have been erected, most of them in Denmark.

Over the years, the performance of these turbines has been logged in a public database, showing a consistently high production output.

The high output is driven by the large rotor diameter of 13 metres, which makes it some 50% larger than usual for this class of machine. It is eight years since the Gaia-Wind turbine received Danish HB-Standard’s approval, making it the only small wind turbine to do so. In addition, the low rotational speed of the wing conforms to Denmark’s strict planning regulations with regard to noise production.

Mita-Teknik A/S, the leading supplier of controls for large wind turbines, has owned Gaia-Wind A/S for the past 6 years and during this period has stamped its professionalism on the organisation.

As expected with Mita-Teknik’s background, it has brought the control of the Wind turbine to the highest standards, as found in large wind turbines. This allows Gaia-Wind turbines to be monitored over the internet through the use of its advanced safety system.

The leading investor and Managing Director of the new Gaia-Wind is Johnnie Andringa. With a background in large wind turbine design, Mr Andringa founded Mecal BV in his native Netherlands and spent 12 years as Managing Director of the company.

More recently, he gained additional experience in the management of a small wind turbine company, operating in the fast-growing United Kingdom market.

Holger Anderson, Managing Director of Mita-Teknik A/S, comments: “We are proud of the design of the Gaia-Wind turbine and are very pleased that this new ownership will allow the company to move forward in the way the customers deserve and the market requires”.

“Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that although we will lose ownership, we will remain as a partner in the future development of the controllers for the Gaia-Wind turbines.”

Johnnie Andringa added: “I am very excited to be part of this new and promising venture. In the short-term we will work hard on servicing our existing customers and expanding our business in Denmark through Gaia-Wind A/S in Århus. At the same time, we will start selling Gaia-Wind turbines to customers in the United Kingdom through Gaia-Wind Ltd in Glasgow.”

“Over the next few years we intend to make the company the leading supplier of competitively priced high performance small wind-turbines.”

More information on Gaia-Wind can be found at www.gaia-wind.com and e-mail enquiries can be sent to mail@gaia-wind.com.

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