Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica has broken into the Latin American wind energy market, more specifically Venezuela, through its subsidiary MADE.
The Spanish company has reached an agreement with the country's main
energy group Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) for the supply of 76
AE61-1,320 kW 60 Hz wind turbine generators, amounting to a total power
of 100MW. These wind turbines will be destined to what will become the
first Venezuelan wind energy facility, located in the Paraguaná
peninsula in the state of Falcón. This agreement, amounting to almost €
116 million, includes the supply and overseeing the installation and
start-up of the wind turbine generators, along with two years of
operation and maintenance. The wind energy facility's assembly work
will commence in the last quarter of 2009.
