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orders totalling 100MW from Ningxia-based Hanas New Energy (Hanas), the leading regional natural gas supplier in China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region (NHAR). Less than a month ago, Hanas ordered 50MW from Vestas, which brought the company’s portfolio of Vestas turbines up to 250MW. With today’s two additional orders, Hanas’ portfolio of Vestas turbines amounts to 350 MW and Vestas remains the sole supplier. Te new V100-2.0MW turbine model is built on
the well-known 2MW platform which, with its large rotor diameter, is designed and optimised for low wind sites. Te turbines will be installed in the Yanchi wind farm. Delivery of the first wind turbine is expected to start in the second quarter of 2014. Nordex Group has been awarded a contract for
construction of the Manfredonia wind farm close to the town of the same name on Italy’s Adriatic coast. Te investor is a special purpose vehicle called Eolsiponto which is owned by Capital Riesgo Global - a company of Banco Santander - and Alerion Clean Power.
Te contract marks the first time that power
producer Alerion has opted for Nordex turbines. With an installed capacity of over 250 MW, this company is one of the largest independent power producers and project developers in Italy. Work on installing the seven N100/2500 turbines is to commence in spring 2014. Te wind farm will have an installed capacity of 17.5 MW, sufficient to generate almost 40 GWh of clean energy a year, and preventing the emission of 40,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. At the same time, Nordex’s business in Pakistan is continuing to gain momentum. FWEL I, the second 50MW contract of five on conditional order from Nordex, has now been given the go ahead. Fauji Foundation and the infrastructure fund Cap Asia (Malaysia) are the major shareholders. Te 20 N100/2500MW turbines are to be installed in the province of Sindh in 2014. Tis is the same
province where the other two wind farms - FFCEL and FWEL II - are located. Te close proximity of all three projects will enable Nordex to leverage synergies such as centralising the provision of services under the warranty and operations and maintenance contracts. As with the other wind farms, Nordex will be executing the new project with its local partner Descon Engineering.
“Te experience which we have gained with such complex projects and the technical adjustments to our turbines for operation in such climatic conditions are key determinants for our leading market position in Pakistan,” says Lars Bondo Krogsgaard, a member of Nordex’s management board.
New investors come on board In business news, Fortum and Metsähallitus have agreed to sell their Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää and Joukhaisselkä pre-construction stage wind power projects in Lapland to Impax New Energy Investors II (NEF ll), a fund managed by Impax Asset Management (Impax). Fortum’s share of the projects is 51 per cent and Metsähallitus’s 49 per cent. Te Kuolavaara-Keulakkopää project is located in the Kittilä and Sodankylä municipalities. A wind park consisting of 17 wind power plants with an output of approximately 50MW is planned for the area. Te Joukhaisselkä’s wind power park of 8-10 turbines, with a planned output of about 25MW, is located in the Sodankylä municipality. Fortum and Metsähallitus have developed the projects jointly. Te Impax NEF II fund closed in August 2011 and has €330 million of capital committed to the renewable energy sector. It has a growing portfolio of wind power projects including over 200 MW in construction and operation in France, Germany and Poland, as well as solar photovoltaic investments in Italy. In other investor news, Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) has acquired two wind parks in France and
Michigan signs 105MW wind farm deal M
ichigan company Consumers Energy has signed a contract with Southfield-based Barton
Malow for engineering, procurement and construction services at its US$255 million (€169 million) Cross Winds Energy Park, a 105MW wind farm in Tuscola County. About 150 construction jobs are
expected to be created when Cross Winds begins construction later this year and into 2014 in Tuscola County’s Akron and Columbia townships. The contract includes: designing, engineering and constructing the park’s turbine foundations, access roads,
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an operations and maintenance building; erecting the park’s 62 wind turbines; and building the infrastructure that connects the turbines to the electrical grid. Barton Malow has previous experience building wind farms in Michigan. An independent economic study estimated that construction of Cross Winds will generate direct and indirect output in Michigan valued at US$160.2 million (€120.4 million). Cross Winds is Consumers Energy’s
second wind farm; the Lake Winds Energy Park began operating near Ludington in November 2012. Consumers Energy is
Michigan’s leading supplier of renewable energy with about 8 per cent of the electricity supplied to customers coming from Michigan-based renewable projects. Completion of Cross Winds by late 2014 will help the company meet Michigan’s renewable energy standard, which requires 10 per cent of the state’s energy supply to come from renewable sources by 2015. Consumers Energy is Michigan’s largest
utility. Overall it provides natural gas and electricity to 6.6 million of the state’s 10 million residents. ●
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