IBERDROLA signed its largest renewable energy contract to date, valued at approximately EUR 620M, with Areva for the supply of wind turbines to its Wikinger offshore project.
The French company will supply 70 M5000-135 5MW wind turbines, worth EUR 550M. For the first time, IBERDROLA will be installing 5MW turbines in a wind facility. Under the terms of the contract, AREVA will also provide maintenance services, valued at EUR 70M, for a 5-year period, which may be extended for another five years. AREVA will deliver this contract within the framework of a joint venture recently agreed with Gamesa to combine both groups’ offshore businesses.
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The 350-MW Wikinger project, currently being developed in the Baltic Sea, will become the Company’s first offshore wind farm in Germany and its second such facility after this year’s commissioning of West of Duddon Sands in the Irish sea. It will also become the fourth AREVA-powered project in German waters.
Manufacturing will take place at AREVA’s production sites of Bremerhaven and Stade, in the North of Germany, and the turbines are scheduled to be installed as early as 2017 on jacket foundations from the port of Sassnitz.
