Siemens has been awarded an order from Apex Clean Energy to supply, support installation and provide long-term service for 66 wind turbines for the Grant Wind project in Grant County, Oklahoma.
Installation of the turbines is scheduled to begin in October 2015, with the start of operations expected in the spring of 2016. Siemens Financial Services is supporting the project’s construction financing with US$ 50 million. The project will feature 66 Siemens SWT-2.3-108 wind turbines, each with a power rating of 2.3MW and 53-meter blades. The nacelles for the Grant Wind project will be assembled at the Siemens facility in Hutchinson, Kansas, and the blades will be manufactured at the Siemens blade facility in Fort Madison, Iowa. A long-term service and maintenance agreement for the turbines was also signed and includes Siemens’ remote monitoring and diagnostic services. Additionally, Siemens is supplying the project’s main step up transformer.
