Nordex Reflects on Four Decades of Climate Impact as Earth Day 2025 Highlights Renewable Progress

Wind energy meets fossil fuels

(IN BRIEF) To commemorate Earth Day 2025, Nordex is highlighting its four-decade journey in sustainable wind power development. From pioneering early efforts to reduce CO2e emissions in the 1980s to installing over 57 GW of wind capacity in more than 40 countries, Nordex has consistently placed climate action at the heart of its mission. Its wind turbines have now helped prevent 600 million tonnes of CO2e emissions, with 81 million tonnes avoided in 2024 alone. Drawing on milestones like the 2006 Stern Report and the 2007 IPCC report, Nordex shows how public awareness and its own innovations have advanced in tandem. By offering some of the most climate-efficient turbines on the market, Nordex reinforces the 2025 Earth Day theme: Our Power, Our Planet—a call to triple clean electricity generation by 2030 and push global emissions toward zero.

(PRESS RELEASE) HAMBURG, 22-Apr-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — As the world marks 55 years of Earth Day on 22 April 2025, Nordex is taking the opportunity to reflect on its long-standing commitment to renewable energy and climate protection. Since its inception, the company has centered its mission around reducing CO2e emissions through the production of green electricity, aligning closely with this year’s Earth Day theme: Our Power, Our Planet, which urges global action to triple clean energy generation by 2030.

The early years of Nordex were shaped by a vision to offer not only cost-effective turbines but also to deliver a tangible environmental benefit. Even in the 1980s and 1990s, Nordex teams discussed CO2e reduction metrics alongside performance data, long before sustainability became mainstream. That broader awareness only began to take shape in the early 2000s.

The turning point came in 2006 with the influential Stern Report, which quantified the cost-effectiveness of climate action, followed by the IPCC’s 2007 Fourth Assessment Report, which accelerated public discourse around emissions. Despite growing awareness, global emissions soared—highlighting the urgency of transition.

1995: Sustainability reporting at Nordex – Avoiding emissions

Internally, Nordex had already embedded sustainability messaging in its materials as early as 1995, when presentations included data on the environmental benefits of wind energy, using overhead transparencies to illustrate comparisons with coal power. By 2010, sustainability featured heavily in customer communications like WindpowerUpdate, and today, Nordex’s commitment to avoided emissions is deeply integrated into its reporting and outreach.

To date, the Nordex Group has deployed more than 57 GW of wind power across 40+ markets. Its fleet of over 20,000 turbines has helped avoid more than 600 million tonnes of CO2e since 1985. In 2024 alone, Nordex turbines offset 81 million tonnes of emissions, nearly matching Belgium’s entire annual CO2e emissions from fossil fuels and industry in 2023.

These gains stem from continued advances in turbine design. For example, the Delta4000 turbine emits just 6.5 g CO2e per kWh, a stark contrast to the 436 g/kWh average of the global electricity mix in 2020—and dramatically cleaner than hard coal at 1,060 g/kWh.

As Nordex looks to the future, its mission remains clear: accelerate the global shift toward clean energy and drive avoided emissions toward net zero. The company’s legacy and progress underscore the urgency and relevance of Earth Day’s message—empowering people and the planet through renewable energy.

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SOURCE: Nordex SE