Acciona Windpower has reached agreement with Atlantic Energias Renováveis and the British private equity firm Actis to supply sixty-five 3MW turbines (195 megawatts (MW) for wind farms located in the State of Piauí (North Brazil).
The project consists of eight wind farms: Lagoa do Barro I-VII and Queimada Nova. With this contract, ACCIONA Windpower reaches 1,020MW sold of its AW3000 wind turbine in Brazil, since it started marketing it in 2012. The model selected in this contract is the AW125/3000, which has a rotor diameter of 125 meters and the turbines will be mounted on 120-meter-high concrete towers. Supply of the wind turbines will begin in 2017, with the aim of the complex becoming operational in the second semester of 2018. Acciona Windpower will also operate and maintain the installation for 15 years.
Acciona receives order to supply 195MW to projects in Brazil
Acciona Windpower has reached agreement with Atlantic Energias Renováveis and the British private equity firm Actis to supply sixty-five 3MW turbines (195 megawatts (MW) for wind farms located in the State of Piauí (North Brazil).The project consists of eight wind farms: Lagoa do Barro I-VII and Queimada Nova. With this contract, ACCIONA Windpower reaches 1,020MW sold of its AW3000 wind turbine in Brazil, since it started marketing it in 2012. The model selected in this contract is the AW125/3000, which has a rotor diameter of 125 meters and the turbines will be mounted on 120-meter-high concrete towers. Supply of the wind turbines will begin in 2017, with the aim of the complex becoming operational in the second semester of 2018. Acciona Windpower will also operate and maintain the installation for 15 years.