The presentation will be Gamesa’s third consecutive appearance at the conference, having launched its first Canadian project in February 2012. The company’s G114-2.0 MW turbine is designed to achieve maximum returns from Class IIIA low-wind sites and is the newest evolution for the company’s two-megawatt workhorse platform, having more than 12 gigawatts of installed capacity and availability levels well above 98 percent. With a 114-meter rotor, the new turbine has a 38 percent larger swept area than Gamesa’s G97-2.0 MW turbine and produces 20 percent more energy annually. A new, state-of-the-art blade design ensures maximum energy production, reduces noise levels and keeps cost of energy low.
“The Canadian wind market offers abundant opportunities for growth,” said David Rosenberg, Gamesa’s vice president of marketing. “Gamesa’s G114-2.0 MW model is highly competitive and well suited to optimize power production in the low-wind sites that are abundant in Canada.”
The Canadian market remains a priority for the company, which announced its first Canadian project in February 2012 - the Gesner Wind Farm in Highgate, Ontario, located near the northern shore of Lake Erie. Gamesa is supplying G97-2.0 MW turbines on 90-meter towers to Saturn Power to develop the project, which is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of the year. The offtake will be purchased by the Ontario Power Authority. The Gesner turbine model was showcased at CanWEA in 2011.
Gamesa has so far installed more than 25,000MW in 39 countries on five continents. With two plants in Pennsylvania, Gamesa was the first overseas wind manufacturer to set up full production facilities in the United States. In 2011, Gamesa delivered 874 MW to 12 wind farms in the U.S. and exported another 102 MW to the first wind farm built in Honduras. That same year, Gamesa won the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s “Renewable Energy Exporter of the Year” award.
As part of its global Corporate University program, Gamesa operates a U.S. training center with Bucks County Community College, where the company provides continuing education to existing employees and offers customers and others skills training in wind technology.
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