Vestas received an order from Canada's Capital Power for 202 megawatts (MW) of its V136-3.45 MW turbines delivered in 3.6 MW Power Optimized Mode, the Danish wind energy company announced Tuesday.
The turbines will be supplied for the Whistla Wind project in southeast Alberta, Canada, which was selected as one of four projects by the Alberta Electric System Operator in Alberta's first renewable energy auction in 2017, according to a press release from Vestas' U.S. subsidiary, Vestas-American Wind Technology based in Portland, Oregon.
The order includes supply and commissioning of the turbines as well as a ten-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement, designed to maximize uptime and energy production and ensure optimized performance for the lifetime of the project.
Turbine delivery will begin in the second quarter of 2019 with commissioning scheduled for the third quarter.
According to the statement, the 2017 auction set a 'record-breaking' low cost benchmark for wind energy costs in Canada, and resulted in Alberta expanding its original wind MW allocation target by nearly 50 percent, from 400 MW to almost 600 MW.
The 2017 auction is part of Alberta's plan to add up to 5,000 MW of renewable energy to the grid by 2030, Vestas said, adding Alberta is the third largest wind market in Canada, which ranks 9th in the world for installed capacity.
Wind has been the number one source of new electricity generation in Canada for more than a decade, it added.
By Hale Turkes
Anadolu Agency
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