Casa dos Ventos, one of the pioneers and largest investors in the development of wind power projects in Brazil, has placed a 445 MW wind farm order for the supply and installation of 106 Vestas V150-4.2 MW wind turbines for the Rio do Vento wind farm in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. For the wind farm, Vestas has developed a customised solution for the site’s wind profile, including optimised towers and the V150-4.2 MW turbine’s high capacity factor, offering very competitive levelised cost of energy for Brazil’s free energy market.
“The
wind resources in Rio do Vento is among the best in the world, which
required us to look for the best available technology for the project.
We are convinced that Vestas’ solution will allows us to extract the
maximum energy out of this region“, says Lucas Araripe, Casa dos Ventos Director of Business Development.
“The
scale of this wind farm underlines the V150-4.2 MW turbine’s perfect fit
for Brazil’s wind profile and its ability to provide the most
competitive levelised cost of wind energy. This is key to optimise our
customer’s business case certainty in Brazil’s free energy market”, says Rogério Zampronha, president of Vestas in Brazil and LATAM South.
The
wind energy project will be Vestas’ largest in Brazil and the second order Casa dos
Ventos places with Vestas in less than six months and the largest wind
turbine order by the Brazilian developer to date. The nacelles will be
manufactured in Vestas’ facility in Ceará, while the blades and towers
will also be produced locally in accordance with the rules of FINAME II
of the National Development Bank (BNDES).
The contract includes
supply, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, as well as a
20-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement. The
project is expected to become operational during the second half of
2021.
With this order, Vestas’ firm order intake for the V150-4.2
MW in Brazil passes 1,500 MW, just eight months after the company
announced plans to produce the turbine variant in the Brazilian state of
Ceará.
