Danish renewables developer founded in Hobro in 2006 by brothers Jens and Søren Rasmussen, now with more than 700 employees across 16 markets in Europe and the United States and Norlys and Blackstone as major shareholders. Its Portuguese subsidiary, Eurowind Energy Lda in Porto, runs a solar portfolio of more than 50 MWp in operation and about 50 MWp under construction, with a development pipeline the company puts at over 1.5 GW — and hosts the group’s Solar Competence Center.
Eurowind Energy develops, builds and operates wind, solar, biogas and battery projects and describes itself as one of Denmark’s largest onshore wind and solar developers. The group owns and operates roughly 1.6 GW of wind and solar parks, manages a wider portfolio of more than 3 GW and carries a multi-technology development pipeline of over 55 GW; Norlys holds 37.65 percent of the company and Blackstone agreed to take 24.7 percent, a transaction the company says is still subject to regulatory approvals. Its Portuguese arm, Eurowind Energy Lda, sits on Rua Júlio Dinis in Porto, is led regionally by Managing Director Southern Europe Pedro Gomes Pereira and, since a 2022 hiring round that doubled the local team, has hosted the Solar Competence Center for the whole group — the Porto engineers manage the construction phase of Portuguese projects and support Eurowind’s EPC department on solar builds elsewhere in Europe.
The Portuguese portfolio started with Triana, a 22 MWp bifacial-tracker plant in Alenquer, north of Lisbon, whose rights were acquired from Hyperion Renewables in 2020–21 and whose construction began in October 2021 with CJR Renewables as balance-of-plant contractor. In August 2024 Eurowind signed for a special-purpose vehicle holding eleven 5 MW AC solar projects in the Aveiro district developed by Insun, up to 55 MW AC in total, with each cluster closing as it reached ready-to-build; the Avanca (15 MW AC) and Esgueira (5 MW AC) clusters closed on 21 July 2025 and went into construction, with Ovar and Arada (15 MW AC each) to follow. On 21 August 2025 the company closed the Vale da Missa 10 MW AC project in Borba, Alentejo — its southernmost Portuguese asset — and energised the 5 MW AC Enxara do Bispo plant near Mafra. Eurowind Energy is a member of APREN and of the Portuguese hydrogen association AP2H2.
Eurowind is one of the clearest examples of Danish renewables capital treating Portugal as a long-term operating market rather than a one-off asset purchase: a registered subsidiary, a named country manager, a group-wide technical function based in Porto, and a pipeline built partly from scratch and partly by buying ready-to-build projects from Portuguese developers such as Insun, Pentagab and Enerfont. Its stated plan to repower and hybridise the existing Portuguese fleet with battery storage and, where possible, wind mirrors the Danish hybrid-park model the company pioneered at home.
In June 2026 Eurowind published a GfK/Metris survey commissioned for a planned solar-and-wind project in the Castelo Branco district, reporting that 85 percent of residents viewed a renewable project in their area positively and 54 percent supported it outright, with Country Manager Portugal Mariana Figueiredo framing community consultation as part of the company’s development method. In September 2025 the company said its Portuguese fleet exceeded 50 MWp in operation with roughly 50 MWp more under construction and a development pipeline above 1.5 GW. NorthSouth HQ has covered Eurowind’s Portuguese expansion, including the Blackstone investment and the Aveiro solar pipeline, in the corridor news archive.
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