Spain
's
Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA (GAM.MC) said Tuesday that China Guangdong
Nuclear Group Energy Ltd. has awarded it a contract to supply 58 wind turbines.
Gamesa, which didn't provide financial details of the agreement, said the
wind-energy generators have a total installed capacity of 49.3 megawatts and
are destined for a wind farm now under construction in
Shandong
province. It said the wind farm is expected to be connected to the electricity
grid by the end of the year.
The wind turbines will have an individual capacity of 850 kilowatts.
Gamesa has supplied wind turbines with a capacity totaling 350 MW to Guangdong
Nuclear since 2009 for the development of wind farms in the Chinese provinces
of
Shandong
,
Liaoning
and
Heilongjiang
.
Gamesa has operated in
China
since
2000, installing more than 3,000 turbines at more than 60 sites across the
country. As a wind-farm developer, the company's joint development pipeline in
China
now
totals around 3,000 MW.
At 1125
GMT, Gamesa's shares were up 3.3% at EUR1.68.