Europeans Continue To Enter North American Wind Energy Market
Recent announcements reveal the continued extent to which European companies are investing in the North American wind energy market, which the Global Wind Energy Council has declared will be the most important regional market in the world between 2007 and 2010.
The Power Generation Group of Siemens AG announced that it will supply 86 of its SWT-2.3-93 wind turbines with a capacity of 2.3MW each for the Wolf Island Wind project, located near Kingston in Eastern Ontario, Canada. The purchasing company is a subsidiary of Canadian Hydro Developers Inc.. The wind farm is expected to be operational by 2008. Canada is expected to be one of the five largest wind power markets in the next ten years.
With the most recent order, Siemens states that it has secured wind turbine orders in 2007 totaling more than 750MW in North America (with a monetary total of USD $1.1 billion, €770 million).
Vestas announced that it had received an order of 201MW for 67 units of its V90-3.0 MW wind turbines from American company Horizon Wind Energy, to be installed at Horizon’s Meridian Way Wind Farm located in the state of Kansas. The order comprises of the supply and commissioning of the turbines, and a five-year service and maintenance agreement. Delivery of the 67 wind turbines is expected to begin in the middle of 2008. Horizon is a fully-owned subsidiary of Energias de Portugal S.A., one of the world’s largest generators of electricity from renewable sources.
