MLK Gruppe

Development, planning, realisation and operation of wind farms and other plants from renewable resources. With a focus on fair and social participation projects.

MLK is realising the energy transition locally. This means that it does not plan from afar and anonymously place wind farms in the landscape. MLK operates where its projects are. For example, at the Group's main locations - in Erkelenz (NRW), Berlin, Hamburg and Jacobsdorf near Frankfurt/Oder. Or in smaller regional offices such as in Nordwestuckermark, Gräfenhainichen or in the Eifel/Rhineland Palatinate. In this way, MLK makes itself visible and local residents, landowners and municipalities have a contact person in the immediate vicinity.

MLK has now connected 147 wind turbines with a total output of around 500 MW to the grid. This includes one of the largest wind farms in Germany: the Jacobsdorf wind farm, which will now become the Jacobsdorf combined-cycle power plant. MLK's first large-scale solar parks are also going into operation - as in the Oder foreland - and, where possible, will utilise the existing infrastructure and round off the feed-in profile.

Citizens should benefit - without hurdles, without risk

MLK's special feature: It does not only plan and build wind and solar parks. It also operates them itself and retains a long-term stake in them. And the people there should benefit from the renewables in the region. Indirectly, by giving the municipalities a greater financial stake (with § 6 of the EEG) or directly through specially developed citizen participation measures. These include neighbourhood electricity, which gives wind farm neighbours exclusive access to discounted green electricity. In other words, risk-free participation without the need to invest first.

As of today, MLK has a project pipeline of around 1 gigawatt in the pipeline. That is roughly twice as many solar and wind parks as it currently has in its portfolio.