Vestas Clinch Costa Rican Wind Power Contract

The global wind turbine manufacturer, Vestas, has won a contract from  Tilawind Corporation, a special purpose company owned by New Tessela and Gruman Resources, to supply wind turbines for a new 21MW power plant in Costa Rica. The deal is for Vestas to supply seven V90-3.o MW turbines together with a VestasOnline Business SCADA system and a ten-year Active Management Output (AMO) 5000 service agreement. The AOM 5000 service package is there to ensure the turbines are operational when the wind is blowing and the VestasOnline surveillance system remotely controls and monitors the turbines and supports preventive maintenance practices that minimise turbine downtime.

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The location of the wind farm is in the province of Guanacaste. The turbines will be delivered later this year and be commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2014.

The CEO of Tilawind is Carlos Graffigna and he said that when the company started planning the wind farm, they looked at possibilities for the project to be sustainable, profitable and successful.  Vestas’ V90-3.0 MW turbines, when combined with the service package, met all their requirements. He said:

“We look forward to the installation of such a strong and proven platform and to the completion of our first Costa Rican plant with Vestas turbines.”

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Vestas’ Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America vice president (sales) Adrian Gorenstein said:

“We welcome Gruman Resources as a new customer for Vestas and we are confident they will achieve a great return on their investment with the V90-3.0 MW turbines. In 2013, we delivered 144MW of wind capacity to three different projects in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America to help solidify our position in the area where we have installed more than 500MW as of December.”

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Costa Rica plans on being carbon neutral through the building of wind farms and small hydro-electric plants. The ambitious goal is to have as much green energy as possible and have sufficient trees planted to consume all the carbon generated by 2021.  Costa Rica produces most of its energy from hydro-electric power and only 4% from wind power.