Vestas Receives Orders for 33 Wind Turbines for Two Projects in Poland

February 28, 2008 – Vol. 12 No. 49

Vestas Receives Orders for 33 Wind Turbines for Two Projects in Poland.

Combined the the orders represent 82 megawatts capacity. The order for the Dobrzyn project consist of 17 units of the V90-2.0 MW wind turbine, and the order for the Wronki project consists of 16 units of the V90-3.0 MW turbine.

The Dobrzyn and the Wronki wind power plants will annually save the environment from approx 80,000 and 98,000 tons of CO2, respectively. The total production from the wind power plants will provide enough electricity to power approx 50,000 Polish households.

The orders have been placed by the Vortex Energy Group, which is a leading German developer. The owner of the projects will be ScanEnergy A/S – a Danish investor within wind power plants.

The Dobrzyn project will be located in the province of Kujawsko-Pomorskie in the Lipnowski region, and the Wronki project will be located in the province of Warmińsko-Mazurskie in the region of Gołdapski. Delivery of the wind turbines for both projects is scheduled for the end of 2008/beginning of 2009, and commissioning is expected during the second quarter of 2009.

Both contracts include supply, installation, commissioning, a VestasOnline (tm) Business SCADA solution as well as a five-year service contract.

Vestas, of Randers, Denmark, is the world's leading supplier of wind power solutions with a 23 per cent market share, and 35,000 wind turbines installed. (2/27/08)

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