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Vestas wins onshore turbine

orders in Vietnam and China

VIETNAM VESTAS has won 172MW of wind turbine quarter of 2020, with commissioning planned
orders from Vietnam and China, as the company for the same quarter.
continues its rush of orderbook uptakes this year. Meanwhile, Vestas has secured an 84MW
In China, Vestas is to supply 12 V155-3.3MW order to install 20 V150-4.2MW wind turbines
turbines with a long-term service contract to an in Vietnam. The order, for an undisclosed cus-
unnamed distributed wind project. tomer, takes Vestas’ orderbook for its V150-
The 40MW deal brings Vestas’ order intake 4.2MW model in Vietnam to over 600MW since
for V155-3.3MW turbines above 300MW in the first order in March 2019.
China since winning its first order in March The latest order also includes a 20-year Active
2020. Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service
Vestas said that the V155-3.3MW was able to agreement, designed to maximise energy pro-
operate with high efficiency amidst the low wind duction for the site. With a yield-based availabil-
conditions that are characteristic of the Chinese ity guarantee, Vestas will provide the customer
wind market. The turbine combines low sound with long-term business case certainty.
power levels with a full-scale converter, making “Vestas is extremely excited about the current
it highly suitable for China’s growing number of boom in activity in Vietnam’s wind market,” said
distributed wind energy projects. Clive Turton, president of Vestas Asia-Pacific.
Distributed wind refers to the fragmented Last week, Vestas also secured an order for 12
network of power grids across China, whereby of the same V150-4.2MW turbines from Viet-
smaller-scale, local power grids are connected to namese developer Phong Lieu Wind Power.
densely populated areas. The turbine will be used for a 48MW project
“The V155-3.3MW turbine, in combination in Quang Tri Province.
with a long-term service agreement proves, to This win marks Vestas’ eighth wind project in
be a strong solution for distributed wind projects the province, bringing its footprint in this region
in China, as it boosts energy production while to over 300MW, and to a total of almost 700MW
improving the performance certainty over a in the country. The order also includes a 10-year
wind park’s lifecycle. This amounts to a competi- Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000)
tive business case for our customer,” said Thomas service agreement.The order also includes a
Keller, president of Vestas China. 10-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM
Deliveries are expected to begin in the fourth 5000) service agreement.™

Japan’s NTT to invest $9bn in

7.5GW of renewables

JAPAN JAPANESE telecoms giant NTT aims to invest The former state telecom monopoly has
JPY1 trillion ($9.3bn) in renewable energy in a become the first company with the ability to
bid to decarbonise its operations and to break operate on a national scale to enter Japan’s power
into a growing market. distribution market since it was fully deregulated
NTT aims to raise its operational green in 2016, Nikkei noted.
capacity from just 300MW at present to 7.5GW, In the transmission and distribution sec-
and is interested in solar and both onshore and tors, NTT aims to sell power directly to cus-
offshore wind, as well as developing its own tomers. Most of the company’s 7,300 telephone
transmission grid, Japan’s Nikkei reported. exchanges nationwide will be used as “mini-gen-
NTT aims to enter the power retail sector, erators” and be equipped with storage batteries
distributed either through existing infrastruc- for renewable energy.
ture or via NTT-owned grids, to businesses and Electricity can then be sent to customers in
consumers directly. factories and offices nearby through existing
The telecom group aims to group its renewa- grids or NTT’s own lines, the paper said.
bles activities into NTT Anode Energy, which it Meanwhile, NTT is to work together with
set up in 2019. Mitsubishi Corp. to “study co-operation” in

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