This year Nordex Group is celebrating its 40th anniversary as one of the largest wind turbine manufacturers in the world. “We’re number one in Europe and the Balkans is actually a key region for us,” Christopher Billot, Sales Director for the Mediterranean region of Nordex Group, said at Belgrade Energy Forum 2025.
Nordex installed its first N27 turbine with a capacity of 250 kW in 1986, just one year after the company was founded. In 1995, it became the first in the world to start serial production of a megawatt-class turbine. Today, the capacity of its units ranges from 4 MW to 7 MW.
Christopher Billot noted that the company has been manufacturing wind turbines for the last 40 years.
Nordex entered the Balkans 10 years ago
“We’re number one in Europe and the Balkans is actually a key region for us where we focus intensively. We’ve been there for the last 10 years, and so far we have achieved up to 1 GW of wind turbine installation but also construction across Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia,” Billot stated.
Nordex is spreading within the region and that’s key, in his words, for the company and its future in the region and overall.
“We’re happy to be a silver sponsor of the Belgrade Energy Forum. This is for us a great opportunity to network and to basically partner with all the institutions, clients, and continue to grow and build the network for growth in the Balkans,” Billot stressed.
The global company has marked its 40th anniversary at the recently held Belgrade Energy Forum 2025 (BEF 2025), affirming its commitment to the region.
Helping the pioneering steps in renewables development
Nordex installed and contracted an overall 1 GW in Croatia, Montenegro, and Serbia, encompassing 222 wind turbines across 16 wind farms. Looking at the company’s portfolio, it can be said that it plays a pioneering role in the development of renewable energy sources in the region.
Here are a few examples.
In November last year, it signed an agreement with Montenegro’s state-owned power utility Elektroprivreda Crne Gore (EPCG) for its first wind farm, Gvozd, with a capacity of 54.6 MW. The contract is worth EUR 46.4 million.
A few months earlier, it was announced that Nordex would participate in the expansion of the largest wind farm in Serbia. It received an order for 22 turbines with a total capacity of 154 MW for the Čibuk 2 project. The investors are Masdar and Taaleri SolarWind III Fund.
Nordex was also a partner to Croatian state-owned Hrvatska Elektroprivreda (HEP) in building its first wind power plant. The contract for the delivery of 18 wind turbines with a total capacity of 58 MW for the Korlat wind farm was signed in July 2019.