Nordex has secured a 370MW turbine order for 63 N155 machines from energy company Celsia for three wind farms in Colombia.
The Acacia 2 and Camelias wind farms will be built in the Guajira region and the Carreto project in Atlantico, all in northern Colombia.
Two N155/4.8 turbines are to be used at Carreto, 16 N155/5.X at Acacia 2 and 45 N155/5.X units at Camelias.
The order also includes an agreement to maintain the hardware for five years with an option to extend by a further five years.
Installation is due to commence as of spring 2023.
The turbines will be installed on concrete towers, which will be manufactured locally by Nordex, with hub height of 120 metres.
Nordex chief sales officer Patxi Landa said: “In the last years, Colombia has been developing to a new key country in Latin America for the Nordex Group. We will now work closely with Celsia to help them to achieve their goals at their first wind energy project in Colombia.”
When the wind farms are completed in 2023 Nordex will have supplied an installed capacity in Colombia totalling 594MW.
Nordex vice president of the Latin America region Marcos Cardaci said: “We thank Celsia for the trust placed in Nordex and our technology and we trust in the great future of the Colombian market”.
In Colombia 70% of electricity comes from hydroelectric power and 29% from fossil-fuelled power plants.
In order to meet the increasing demand for electricity in the country and to reduce the risk of outages – also caused by periods of drought – the Colombian government plans to diversify the energy mix by the increasing the use of wind power.