Nordex has secured a turbine order for a 188MW wind project in Finland from German developer WPD.
The order is for 33 N163/5.X turbines in the Delta4000 series for the Karhunnevankangas project, in western Finland, which Nordex will also service for 15 years with an option to extend by a further five years.
Installation and completion of the wind farm, in the north of Ostrobothnia, is scheduled for 2022.
WPD Finland managing director Heikki Peltomaa said: “We are excited to have another wind farm with Nordex state of the art wind turbines.
“We are looking for late 2022 to start delivering emission free electricity to Europe’s largest paper company, UPM, based on a corporate PPA.”
The turbines will be supplied in a project-specific operating mode of 5.7MW.
Karhunnevankangas is also the first project where Nordex will install the turbines on tubular steel towers with hub heights of 159 metres.
The height of the rotor blade tips of 240 metres means that the turbines reach higher wind strata with less turbulence at the site, which is located near the coast, Nordex said.
Nordex chief sales officer Patxi Landa added: “The N163/5.X is ideally suited to sites with medium wind speeds and is a highly efficient solution for this project site on Finland’s west coast.
“We are pleased to note the renewed trust shown by WPD in our turbine technology and that here we are able to install it on tubular steel towers with hub heights of just under 160 metres.”