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Vestas signs 363MW of Chinese turbine deals
CHINA
DENMARK’S Vestas has announced three major turbine deals in China in the last week amounting to a combined 363MW, taking the company’s Chinese orderbook for the first quar- ter of 2020 to 750MW.
The company also won its first 20-year service agreement in the country as it continued to break into the competitive Chinese market.
Vestas was unable to reveal which companies had made the orders, as in increasingly becom- ing standard Chinese practice, although Vestas did say that the deals showed Chinese customers’ trust in the company’s long-term commitment to the country.
The largest order was for 202MW, compris- ing 56 V136-3.45MW turbines in 3.6 Power Optimised Mode, together with a 2-year service agreement.
Vestas expects to begin deliveries the third quarter of 2020, with commissioning planned for the same quarter.
The second order was worth 99MW, and came with the pioneering 20-year service deal. This covered two projects in Jiangsu Province, which will feature a mix of 16 V155-3.3MW and 21 V110-2.2MW turbines Vestas highlighted that the V155-3.3MW order was only the sec- ond from Beijing, where the design was suited to the low wind conditions seen in parts of China.
“The order is significant in two ways, as it demonstrates the V155-3.3MW turbine’s suita- bility for China’s low-wind market and marks our Chinese customers’ increasing trust in Vestas’ long-term service capabilities and commitment,”
said Thomas Keller, president of Vestas China. Deliveries are anticipated to begin in the second quarter of 2020, while commissioning is planned for the third quarter of this year, said
Vestas.
The final 62MW order was for the V120-
2.2MW turbine model with a 5-year service agreement. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2020, while commission- ing is planned for the fourth quarter of 2020, Vestas said.
This week’s announcements follow Vestas’ 50MW deal earlier in March with Chinese trans- former maker TBEA to supply V120-2.2MW turbines for the Wanghaotun wind project in Shandong Province.
China added 26.2GW onshore wind capacity in 2019, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), while also opening 2.3GW offshore.
China’s power sector has been affected by coronavirus (COVID-19), with generation fall- ing by 8.2%, according to official Chinese statis- tics, although solar output rose by 12%.
Meanwhile, in Europe this week Vestas announced a 36MW turbine order from Poland and one for 80MW from Norway.
The Polish order comes from local developer ERG and is for the 18 V100–2.0MW turbines for the Laszki project.
The Norwegian order is from Mac- quarie-owned Green Investment Group and is for 19 V150-4.2MW turbines for the 79.8MW Haramsfjellet wind farm.™
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