CEZ Group – the largest utility in Central and Eastern Europe – as a first piece in its strategy to buy 1GW in Western European renewables assets has bought a 12.8MW onshore wind park in south-western Germany from investment firm Aream.

“This is our initial project in the German renewables market, with others planned to follow,” says Tomáš Pleskač, chief renewables and development officer at CEZ.

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