Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S, has announced the opening of the Vestas regional R&D Hub for? Asia at Fusionopolis, Singapore, one of its largest R&D centres outside Denmark.
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This marks the first milestone of the company's 10-year plan to invest up to S$ 500 million in Singapore to advance research in wind power technologies in light of the world's growing energy challenge. Vestas' regional R&D hub will embrace high quality technology research, new component and sub-system development, as well as innovation in product development to maximize wind turbine performance, product reliability, and reduction in wind energy cost. R&D facility will house over 100 researchers and engineers holding PhDs and Engineering Masters from 16 nationalities. Next year,the R&D facility will continue to grow and exceed its target of 150?engineers in2009, doubling this community to over 300 R&D engineers by 2012.
