A joint venture between Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein has placed an order with the Nordex Group for supply and installation of turbines at the 456MW Feijao wind farm in Brazil.
The deal covers 80 N163/5.X turbines and also includes a premium service for the hardware for 20 years.
The wind farm will be built in the states of Piaui and Pernambuco in the north-east of Brazil.
Nordex will be supplying and installing the turbines starting in autumn 2023 on concrete towers with hub heights of 120 metres.
Feijao is due to be operational in spring 2024.
The electricity produced will be supplied by the joint venture to Hydro’s aluminium refinery Alunorte and Hydro Paragominas the company’s bauxite mine on the basis of a long-term power purchase agreement.
Nordex Group chief sales officer Patxi Landa said: “We are pleased to be able to support the Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein with our 5MW turbine technology in the expansion of renewable energy in Brazil and thereby to help accelerate the decarbonisation of Hydro’s production facilities.”