The wind farm will be built by developer Sequoia Energia in partnership with the utility Companhia Hidroelétrica do São Francisco (CHESF). Under the agreement, Gamesa will supply, install and commission 34 of its G97-2.0 MW turbines which will be manufactured at the company’s factory in Camaçari. They are scheduled for delivery over the course of 2015 with commissioning of the wind farm expected in the second half of the year. Gamesa will also maintain the turbines for 15 years.
With this new agreement, Gamesa has now won orders for Brazil of more than 700MW in capacity during 2014. The contract follows its recent Rio Grande de Norte agreement with utility CPFL Renováveis amounting to a total capacity of 231MW. country is now one of the company’s priority markets having locked in orders for more than 2,000 MW since starting up operations in Brazil back in 2010.
The company is now one of Brazil’s leading OEMs by market share and also has an important presence in other Latin American countries including Mexico, Honduras, Uruguay, Argentina and Costa Rica.
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