Siemens has signed a long-term agreement with Minnesota Power to provide service and maintenance for 149 D3-platform wind turbines installed at the Bison Wind Energy Center, located near New Salem, North Dakota.
Under terms of the agreement, Siemens will provide 10 years of service and maintenance for the D3 turbines installed in the first three phases of the Bison Wind Energy Center, which were built in 2010-2012, as well as Bison Phase 4, which began operations in January 2015. This includes a total of 85 SWT-3.0-101 direct drive turbines at Bison Phase 1B, Bison 2 and Bison 3. In addition, the service agreement includes 64 SWT-3.2-113 units at the project’s last phase, Bison 4. The commissioning of Bison 4 brought the total capacity of the Bison complex to nearly 500MW.
