Vestas has secured a 24MW order comprising four projects from juwi Wind in Canada. Deliveries for all projects — Truro Heights, Millbrook, Whynotts and Chebucto Pockwock — are expected to occur in mid-2014 with commissioning in the second half of next year.
“We welcome juwi Wind as a new North American customer for Vestas and are confident they will achieve great return on its investment with the V100-2.0 MW”, said Chris Brown, President of Vestas’ sales and service division in Canada and the United States. Vestas’ nacelle factory in Colorado will assemble the hub and nacelle for these projects while the blades and towers will come from the company’s European factories.
“With the V100, Vestas is delivering a flexible and well-tuned product for the community fixed feed-in tariff market in Nova Scotia”, said Michael Rucker, President of juwi Wind Canada. Vestas has previously supplied turbines to juwi Wind for projects in Germany.
The projects will have five-year service agreements using Active Output Management (AOM) 5000, an energy-based availability guarantee that ensures the turbines are operational when the wind is blowing. This service option includes the VestasOnline surveillance system that remotely controls and monitors the turbines and predicts potential wear-and-tear issues.
