Mainstream Renewable Power has installed all 50 turbines at Aela Energia’s 170MW Sarco wind farm in Chile.
Sarco features Senvion 3.4MW hardware and is located at Freirina in the north of the country.
The turbines have 93-metre metal towers and have total heights of 149 metres, including blades.
Mainstream technical director Diego Cornejo said: “The delivery and installation process, which began in the Port of Las Losas in Huasco, took a total of eight months to complete.
“During the transportation process, 500 components were carried across 160km of motorways and smaller roads before they arrived at the project site to be assembled.
“The assembly of these components can only be carried out in favourable weather conditions.”
A 73km 220kV transmission line is also being built to transport the electricity produced by the $240m wind farm to the Maitencillo substation, Mainstream said.


