Siemens has received orders for three wind power plants with a total capacity of 130MW. The company will equip these plants with its direct-drive D3 wind turbines by the end of 2016.
Both the 60MW Melfi project located near the town of the same name and also a 54MW project near the community of Tricarico are located in the Basilicata region in southern Italy. Installation work at the Melfi and Tricarico sites is to begin in the first half of 2016. The 16MW Cerreto project, with its 5 Siemens SWT-3.2-113 turbines near the community of Genzano di Lucania – likewise located in the Basilicata region – is scheduled to go online in the next weeks.