REpower Systems AG posted gross revenues of € 95.0 million in the first quarter of 2005 compared with € 55.5 million in the same period of the previous year.
This corresponds to an increase of 71.2 per cent. The operating result (EBIT) improved in the reporting period from € –4.7 million to € 1.6 million. After taxes and interest, this results in positive net earnings of € 0.8 million after a loss of € –3.4 million in the previous year period. Orders on hand at the end of the reporting period totalled 351 wind energy turbines (previous year: 244) with a total nominal output of 667.5MW (previous year: 454.5MW), which corresponds to an order volume of around € 580.8 million (previous year: € 351.9 million). The wind energy turbines included in the volume of orders are distributed as follows: Germany 35.5 per cent and outside Germany 64.5 per cent.
