Siemens received an order from France for the supply, installation and commissioning of a total of 24 direct-drive wind turbines with a total capacity of 72MW for four French wind projects, located in the Nord Pas-de-Calais and Picardie regions in northern France.
The investors for this, each with 50 Percent, are Diamond Generating Europe Limited (DGE) and the French renewable energy company EDF Energies Nouvelles (EDF EN). The model SWT-3.0-101 wind turbines ordered for these projects each have a capacity of 3MW and a rotor diameter of 101 meters.
