Gamesa is to build a 40 MW turnkey wind farm in India for ReNew Power, one of the country’s leading independent power producers (IPP). The company will install 20 of its G97-2.0 class S turbines at the Lingsagur wind farm in the province of Karnataka. The G97 is designed for low wind speed sites which are typical of India. Gamesa will also handle all of the infrastructure required to install and operate the project and will also provide long-term operations and maintenance (O&M) services. The wind farm is due to be commissioned in March 2016.
In Brazil, Gamesa has signed its first contract with Votorantim Energia for the supply, transportation, installation and commissioning of 98 G114-2.0 MW turbines at seven locations in the state of Piaui in the eastern part of the country. The turbines will be delivered in 2017 and will feature Gamesa’s MaxPower technology, increasing nominal capacity from 2.0 MW to 2.1 MW and boosting output from 196 MW to 205.8 MW. Nearly 500 MW of G114 turbines have been installed in Brazil thus far. The turbine has been designed to harness more energy at lower cost at low and medium wind speed sites, making it particularly suitable for Brazil’s low turbulent winds. Gamesa will maintain the seven wind farms for the next five years.
Adwen, Gamesa’s joint venture (JV) with Areva, has joined with Germany’s Fraunhofer IWES to test the drivetrain for Adwen’s 8 MW next generation turbine, the largest offshore turbine on the market. The turbine has already been selected for a pipeline of projects, totalling almost 1.5 GW. Its drive train will be tested in the new IWES Dynalab (Dynamic Nacelle Testing Laboratory) site in Bremerhaven, Germany, which will be inaugurated on October 20th. The process will cover mechanical testing of the integral chain of drive train components, simulating operational conditions for extreme and fatigue loads.
Dynalab is one of the world’s largest and most versatile facilities for nacelle testing. Fraunhofer IWES has invested around 35 million Euros in order to design and built the facility. The new turbine is scheduled for serial production in 2018 at Adwen’s industrial sites in France and Germany.
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