Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA (GAM.MC) Thursday said it expects its wind turbine sales to rise through 2013 as the company continues a shift in manufacturing toward growth markets in Asia , the U.S. and South America .

Gamesa said it expects to sell turbines with a combined capacity to generate 4 gigawatts in power in 2013, up from expected sales of 2.4GW to 2.5GW this year.

In 2011, Gamesa expects turbine sales to go up to between 2.8GW and 3.1GW.

That is within the range of sale guidance given before, but with a lower maximum figure. The company previously had said it expects 2011 sales of between 2.7GW and 3.3GW.

Gamesa, contrary to analysts' expectations, gave no guidance for its net profit,

Gamesa shares were suspended before the presentation of its 2011 to 2013 business plan, and fell after resuming trading, down 3.8% to EUR5.20 at 1336 GMT.

On the upside, Gamesa said turbine orders for delivery in 2011 through September 2010 reached 719MW, up from 152MW a year earlier.

The company has earmarked to invest EUR250 million a year between 2011 and 2013. A fifth of that will be in the fledgling offshore sector.

Gamesa said it had opened a new offshore office in the U.S. in September, and will open another in the U.K. in June 2011.

The company also said it sees a dramatic slowdown in its effective blade manufacturing capacity in Spain , which so far had dominated production, and will plunge to 1GW in 2013 from 2.2GW last year.

In both the U.S. and China , however, Gamesa expects its blade manufacturing capacity to double to more than 1GW in 2013 from about 500 megawatt last year.

The company also expects to build up a manufacturing capacity of more than 800MW in India by 2013, and of about 300MW in South America . In both regions Gamesa had no output capacity last year.

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