About Prowind

Prowind develops green energy projects with heart and mind. We combine economic strength with environmental responsibility — for a livable future in your region and beyond.

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ABOUT PROWIND

Success with responsibility — energy with attitude.

Prowind is the reliable partner for regional green energy projects. As an owner-managed company with agricultural roots, we stand for the economic production and use of energy — with a clear awareness of responsibility, sustainability and regional added value.

Our goal is to implement projects that are economically convincing and at the same time ecologically meaningful and socially relevant. In doing so, we think ahead: We use your land for sustainable energy solutions, create new awareness in your environment for sustainable action, make an active contribution to protecting our environment, let your money work sensibly, safely and profitably and strengthen your home through cooperation with regional partners. Since our founding in 2000, Prowind has stood for experience, reliability and innovative strength in the field of renewable energy — with a particular focus on wind power. Our head office is located in Osnabrück. Other locations in Rheine (North Rhine-Westphalia), Nennhausen (Brandenburg), Zwolle (Netherlands) and Hamilton (Canada) show our growing international presence.

With over 300 megawatts of installed capacity and more than 600 megawatts of projected total output, we are actively advancing the energy revolution — regionally rooted, globally engaged and always striving to design energy with a clear conscience.

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Our management

With Johannes Busmann and Thomas Berens, Prowind is headed by two personalities who shape the energy revolution with heart, expertise and vision. Together, they represent a prowind that assumes responsibility, breaks new ground and always remains firmly rooted in the region.

Johannes Busmann
Johannes Busmann is founder and managing director of Prowind GmbH — a man with a clear stance, regional roots and a deep understanding of sustainable energy. Long before he founded the company in 2000, Busmann explored alternative energy sources on his parents' farm — and built his first own wind turbine there. With the successful completion of his law degree, he founded Prowind to actively shape the energy revolution.

What began as a conviction became a life project: Busmann is now regarded as a pioneer of decentralized energy supply in Germany. His goal is to generate energy where it is needed — efficiently, climate-friendly and in close cooperation with the region. Today, Prowind develops wind and solar projects professionally and with great sensitivity — together with communities, farmers and residents. Because: “If you treat people fairly, you will find good solutions,” is Busmann's guiding principle. Under his leadership, the small Osnabrück-based company has become an internationally active group with around 80 companies and hundreds of megawatts of installed capacity. Busmann places particular value on regionality and citizen participation: With crowdfunding projects such as in Bad Bentheim or the first community wind farm in Canada, Prowind shows that economic success and citizen-oriented energy transition are not contradictory. Busmann thinks ahead. In addition to wind power, he uses a clever mix of different renewable sources — for industry, commerce and district solutions. His wish: to be able to provide wind power directly to companies in Osnabrück. Johannes Busmann stands for a clear vision: an energy world that is locally anchored, economically viable and ecologically sound. With Prowind, he brings them to life step by step.
Thomas Berens
Thomas Berens has been managing director of Prowind GmbH since January 1, 2025 and is primarily responsible for strategy and business development. With his many years of experience and commitment to sustainable projects, he is actively helping to drive the energy revolution forward. Berens has been part of Prowind GmbH since 2017 and has worked his way up from project development employee to management. His expertise includes project management, quality management and wind farm planning. He previously worked as a climate protection manager in the Cochem-Zell district and supported the implementation of the climate protection concept. Berens' academic background in biological, environmental and process engineering as well as energy management forms the basis for his well-founded approach to projects in the area of renewable energy.

His focus is on integrating decentralized energy supply systems and promoting citizen participation models. With his participation, Prowind has implemented numerous projects. Berens is committed to transparent communication with communities and farmers and attaches great importance to protecting nature and the environment when implementing energy projects. With his vision and commitment, Thomas Berens is helping to ensure that Prowind is recognized as a premium partner for regional green energy projects and is helping to shape the sustainable energy supply of the future.
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solar energy

When implementing solar projects, we rely on close cooperation with local people, municipalities and regional companies. Our goal is not only to generate sustainable, clean energy, but also to create long-term added value for the region — economically, ecologically and socially. The result is a project that has a positive impact both locally and globally.

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energy storage

Energy storage systems make renewable energy predictable: They store surplus electricity from wind and sun and make it available when needed. In this way, they ensure a stable supply — regardless of weather and time of day — and strengthen regional energy autonomy.

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Wind Power

We support every project from land acquisition to project development, financing and construction construction to the operation of the finished plant. Close cooperation with local citizens, municipalities and regionally based companies is particularly important to us. In this way, the region benefits from clean energy and high added value.

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Our great team

Prowind GmbH is an owner-managed company from Osnabrück, which has been implementing innovative projects in the field of renewable energy since 2000 — with a focus on wind power. With a strong focus on regionality, sustainability and partnership, Prowind develops pioneering energy solutions together with municipalities, farmers and citizens. The company stands for a decentralized, responsible energy transition and focuses on transparency, fairness and technical quality.

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Our story

The history of Prowind

1980s
personal initiative
As early as the 1980s, Johannes Busmann, founder and managing owner of Prowind GmbH, assumed responsibility — for his farm, for the environment and for future generations. On his own initiative, he built his first wind turbine to meet energy requirements sustainably.
1990s
From idea to impulse
What was a bold step back then became the source of an entrepreneurial mission: to actively shape the energy revolution. Wind energy on Johannes Busmann's farm in Bad Bentheim met with great interest at the time, initially in the neighborhood and the surrounding area. But it quickly became apparent that renewable energies are of supra-regional relevance.
2000
The Founding
In 2000, Johannes Busmann founded Prowind GmbH with the aim of developing projects that make economic, ecological and social sense. Since then, Prowind has been driving the energy revolution forward by expanding renewable energy — with a particular focus on wind energy. The first project was a repowering in Bad Bentheim: a plant with a hub height of 78 m and an output of 0.60 MW.
2004
The first projects
Prowind quickly gains its first partners and develops wind farms in Lower Saxony and NRW — proof that sustainability and profitability are compatible. The first projects include two plants in Emsdetten (1.5 MW) and eleven in Wettringen (2 MW). The biogas plant in Nennhausen follows in 2003 — a further step towards renewable energy and sustainable landscape management.
2012/13
Growth & diversification
Prowind goes beyond borders: Prowind Inc. is founded and the first projects are created in Canada. The international orientation is becoming part of the DNA — always with the aim of developing projects together with local partners on equal footing. The company is growing both in terms of personnel and technology: In addition to wind energy and biogas, photovoltaics are now also being added. The first solar park was built in Strausberg in 2013.
2016
Citizenswind in Canada
A wind farm with 10 wind turbines will be built in Gunn's Hill in 2016. The special feature of this project is the high level of citizen participation: 49% of the wind farm is owned by citizens, and a further 10% went to the First Nations, the indigenous people of Canada. Prowind is now increasingly investing in its own operations, operational management and citizen participation — with the aim of helping shape the energy transition in a decentralized and democratic way.
2023
Solar energy for Bavaria
One of Bavaria's largest solar parks is being built together with the municipality of Fuchsstadt. Panels with a total output of 54 megawatts have been installed on over 60 hectares of arable land, so that 21,000 2-person households can be supplied with solar power.
2024
Moving to a new home
After years of growth, a new chapter is beginning: Prowind moves into its own new building in the Osnabrück Science Park. The modern wood-concrete hybrid building with three floors, photovoltaic and heat pump not only offers space for future-oriented work on 3,600 square meters — it also reflects our corporate culture: open, sustainable and visionary.


2025
Strong team & clear mission
Today, Prowind GmbH has around 190 employees, develops projects in several European countries and remains true to its basic idea:
Generate sustainable energy where it is needed — in harmony with people and nature.

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“With the Fuchsstadt solar park, together with Prowind, we have not only made a significant contribution to climate protection, but have also created reliable and sustainable added value for our community. The partnership with Prowind went smoothly and on equal footing — this is exactly how successful project development is imagined. ”
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Rene Gerner
Mayor, Fuchsstadt in Bavaria
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