Work will start shortly to install Vestas turbines at the 72MW Aldermyrberget wind farm in Sweden, with WPD having completed foundation construction and access roads.
The work started in June 2019 and WPD is in the last stages of anchoring the foundations with special rock anchors into the ground at Vasterbottens in Skelleftea in the north of the country.
WPD said the complex terrain with a high proportion of massive rock formations offered advantages, as the rocky ground provided prerequisites for anchoring.
Aldermyrberget is located on land owned by Sveaskog, Holmen and a private landowner.
It will comprise 17 Vestas V150 4.2MW machines with hub heights of 155 metres and total heights of 230 metres.
The turbines will also be equipped with blade heating systems because of the special climatic conditions in northern Sweden, WPD said.
Commissioning is planned for the end of the year.
Output at the wind farm will be about 270 gigawatt-hours a year.
WPD signed a power purchase agreement with a large unnamed Swedish industrial company in May 2019 for the electricity to be generated by the project.
WPD Scandinavia managing director Maria Roske said: “We are pleased to be able to welcome Vestas to the site soon, and that we have reached another milestone in our commitment to Sweden.
“The great commitment with which our teams on site have recently advanced the anchoring of the plant foundations in the hard rock is symbolic of the basic commitment with which we were able to master all challenges in the planning and realisation of the Aldermyrberget project, which is important locally but also for the positioning of WPD in the Swedish market.”