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SOUTH AFRICA: Vestas will provide Enel Green Power with 70 V136-4.2MW turbines at two projects won in the country’s fourth tender round.<\/p>\n
The Karusa and Soetwater projects are both 147MW and located in the Western Cape. They will each feature 35 turbines with hub heights of 82 metres.<\/p>\n
Vestas will supply, install and commission the 70 turbines with a combined capacity of 294MW. It will also service the two sites for five years.<\/p>\n
Nils de Baar, president of Vestas Northern and Central Europe, added the company was “procuring locally produced towers and contracting local transport companies” as part of the manufacturing and installation process.<\/p>\n
To lower turbine downtime and levelised cost of energy (LCOE), the projects will also include a Scada solution (supervisory control and data acquisition), the manufacturer stated.<\/p>\n
Turbine delivery and installation is planned for the second half of 2020. Both projects are expected to be operational in the second half of 2021.<\/p>\n
Enel was\u00a0awarded capacity<\/a>\u00a0for the Karusa and Soetwater projects in the fourth tender round under\u00a0South Africa<\/a>\u2019s renewables procurement plan (REIPP) April 2015.<\/p>\n However, state utility Eskom did not\u00a0sign power purchase agreements (PPAs)<\/a>\u00a0for the two wind farms \u2014 and for 25 other renewable energy projects \u2014 until April 2018.<\/p>\n