ABO Wind AG is a German energy company which develops renewable energy sources (wind, solar and biomass). ABO Wind has international offices in France, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Argentina, Canada, Colombia, South Africa, Tunisia and Iran. In Germany, ABO Wind operates at its corporate headquarters in Wiesbaden as well as in Heidesheim near Mainz and in regional offices in Berlin, Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia as well as in Saarland. As of 2023 the company has over 900 employees and is working on projects amounting to over 2.5 gigawatts worldwide. In January 2023 it was announced that ABO Wind are to combine wind power with green hydrogen for a refueling station for buses and lorries, in the Hessisches Kegelspiel business park in Hünfeld, Hesse, the result of over ten years of research and development into hydrogen power. History The beginnings of the company lie in 1996, when Jochen Ahn and Matthias Bockholt founded the planning company for the use of wind power & other renewable energies. In 2000, they converted the GmbH into a stock corporation and renamed it ABO Wind. The first part of the company name is an acronym from the last names of the founders Ahn and Bockholt. In 1998, the first citizens' wind farm projected by ABO Wind was connected to the grid in Framersheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. The oldest subsidiary abroad is ABO Wind España S.A.U. in Valencia, founded in 2001. Since 2014, ABO Wind has applied to build a wind farm with eleven 150m tall turbines in Aughrim, County Wicklow, Ireland. Local residents vehemently opposed the plan and formed the South Wicklow Wind Action Group (SWWAG) to campaign against it. Wicklow County Council voted to reject the wind farm They reapplied again in 2017 which was also met opposition, but in 2019 An Bord Pleanála approved the wind farm, against the recommendation of their own inspector, and as of 2022 is awaiting judicial review. In 2018, ABO Wind built a wind farm with five Senvion 3.2M122 wind turbines of on former mining areas around the open pit mine in Jänschwalde, Brandenburg, in eastern Germany, very close to the Polish border. At the time it was announced that they had a "150MW portfolio consisting of 66 onshore wind turbines and one biogas plant". In early 2019, the company announced that it was discontinuing its work in Iran. In December 2022, the Greek subsidiary of the