ACCIONA supplying wind turbines for 129MW to Mexican farm

ACCIONA Windpower aw3000 turbine

Wind turbine maker, ACCIONA Windpower (AWP) is supplying 43 turbines with total capacity of 129 MW to a wind farm in Mexico.

These 3-megawatt turbines will bring the total capacity AWP has sold in Mexico up to 988.5 MW. A total of 38 percent of the figure has come from sale of 3-MW turbines.

“The model selected for this contract is the AW125/3000 (rotor diameter 125 meters), designed to optimize the capture of energy on sites with medium-speed winds. The turbines will be mounted on steel towers,” AWP has reported in a statement.

“This confirms the growing interest wind power sector has in our AW 3000 turbine,” AWP Chief Executive José Luis Blanco said.

Already AWP is supplying two wind farms in Nuevo León its 3-MW turbines totaling 252 MW. It has also bagged an order for 1.5-MW turbines of 49.5 MW in Oaxaca.

Overall, the new contract expands AWP’s order book to 6,525 MW, of which 2,412 MW (37%) is for its 3-MW turbine, the company says.

Earlier this month, ACCIONA won a 195-MW turbine supply contract from Brazil.

The company was to develop wind projects in that country in a joint venture with Atlantic Energias Renováveis and Actis.

According to the deal, ACCIONA was to provide 65 of its AW125/3000 turbines for a complex in the Brazilian state of Piauí.

For 15 years, ACCIONA will also be operating and maintaining the turbines under the contract.

Besides Piauí, the project will include a total of eight wind farms, Lagoa do Barro 1 through 7 and Queimada Nova.

ACCIONA is to begin delivery of the turbines in 2017 and the plant is expected to begin operations in the second half of 2018.

The company had stated that it was to manufacture the main components of the turbines in Brazil. Only the nacelles will be assembled at the company’s new plant in Simoes Filho, Bahia.

The Brazilian government had awarded the Lagoa do Barro and Queimada Nova sites to Atlantic last November.

Ajith Kumar S

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