AsiaElec: Vestas wins 101-MW wind turbine order from India’s ReNew Power

Denmark’s Vestas has secured a 101-MW wind turbine order from Indian independent ReNew Power.

ReNew, India’s largest green independent power producer (IPP), is to install the 46 turbines at various projects in the state of Gujarat, and follows on from a previous 101-MW order made with Vestas earlier in 2021.  

The contract covers the supply and supervision of 46 V120-2.2 MW turbines, as well as a 10-year Active Output Management (AOM) 5000 service agreement.

“This is the second order that we have signed with ReNew in the last three months, and I sincerely thank ReNew for their continued trust in Vestas’ ability to deliver on high performance projects. With more than 5.6 GW of commissioned green energy capacity and more than 4 GW of committed capacity, ReNew is pushing forward India’s sustainability goals and we are delighted to partner with them in this journey”, says Vickram Jadhav, vice-president of sales for Vestas India.

Vestas said in a statement that it will be able to provide ReNew Power with long-term business case certainty because of its yield-based availability guarantee.

Deliveries of the turbines are expected to begin in the first quarter of 2022, while commissioning is anticipated for the third quarter of the same year.

Vestas has so far installed 140 GW of wind turbines in 85 countries, making it the world’s largest supplier.

In 2020, Vestas installed 12.4 GW, putting it in third place globally behind GE with 13.53 GW and Goldwind with 13.06 GW, according to data from BloombergNEF.

It has so far supplied 4 GW of wind turbines in India.

The order follows the announcement earlier in September of a 50-MW order from German developer wpd for Taiwan’s Chuangwei 2, Leadway 2 and Hsinyuan wind farms.

With this order, Vestas’ total onshore order intake in Taiwan will exceed more than 330 MW, of which more than 110 MW have been done in collaboration with wdp.

The Hsinyuan wind farm includes six V136-4.2 MW turbines with 112m towers, featuring the largest onshore turbine rotors in Taiwan, which will maximise energy production for the site’s medium wind conditions.

Chuangwei 2 and Leadway 2 wind farms will be installed with four and two V117-4.2 MW turbines with 91.5m towers respectively.