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Vestas has opened its blade production facility in Ulyanovsk, according to the Russian Association of the Wind Industry (RAWI).<\/p>\n
It will produce more than 55 blades there in 2019 that will be used in V124 turbines with capacities of 3.6MW, 3.8MW and 4.2MW, RAWI added.<\/p>\n
The manufacturer has already\u00a0started production of nacelles<\/a>\u00a0in Nizhny Novgorod \u2014 the first production of components in\u00a0Russia<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and plans to set up a tower production facility in Rostov, both in the west of the country.<\/p>\n Vestas\u2019 global partner, Windar Renovables, has also opened a tower factory in Rostov. It plans to produce enough towers there for up to 300MW of turbines each year, the manufacturer stated.<\/p>\n The Danish manufacturer announced its intention to set up Russian manufacturing facilities to comply with the country\u2019s strict local content laws, after being named the\u00a0preferred suppler<\/a>\u00a0for the\u00a01GW capacity won<\/a>\u00a0by a joint venture (JV) of Finnish power company Fortum and Russian technology giant Rusnano in June 2017.<\/p>\n Wind farms must include 65% local content, and 44% of turbine materials must be sourced locally, according to RAWI.<\/p>\n This local content requirement also prompted Siemens Gamesa opening facilities and signing cooperation agreements in Russia in 2018.<\/p>\n In September, SGRE\u00a0signed an agreement\u00a0<\/a>with Siemens Gas Turbine Technologies to assemble wind turbine nacelles, hubs and drivetrains at its factory in the outskirts of St Petersburg in western Russia from August 2019.<\/p>\n