Siemens Gamesa has secured an order to supply its turbines for a 254MW wind farm in Sweden that will power Google’s Hamina data centre in Finland.
The Stavro wind farm will use 62 turbines with a 4.1MW rating. It is expected online by the end of 2021.
It will also generate enough clean energy to power the operations of local paper and board producer Holmen.
The project is split into two sub-sites. Blodrotberget will have 40 turbines, and Blackfjallet will have 22 turbines.
Siemens Gamesa will also service the wind farm for 30 years.
Siemens Gas and Power will provide the grid connection, including engineering, civil works, installation and commissioning of the two 150/33kV sub-sites.
German asset manager Prime Capital is developing the wind farm on behalf of an international consortium comprising Korean institutional investors, German pension fund Nordrheinische Arzteversorgung and Siemens Financial Services.
Siemens Gamesa onshore business chief executive Alfonso Faubel said, “The Scandinavian market continues to show its great potential for wind power and increasing demand for renewable energy as it strives to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
“The project will facilitate Holmen’s transition to 100% renewables consumed in its business and meet part of the fast-growing demand for electricity of Google’s European datacentres.
“Projects like Stavro illustrate how we in Siemens Gamesa drive the transformation towards renewables through strong, long-term relationships where we are constantly working to offer innovation, technology and solutions tailored to the needs of the individual customer.”
The project is the second large scale transaction of this kind that Prime Capital has commercialised and built in the last two years.
Prime Capital chief executive Andreas Kalusche said, “Scandinavian wind is at the core of our current renewable energy strategy, as we can leverage on both a unique competitive advantage in sourcing and realising projects and very favourable market conditions for investing.
“This strategy, in a market benefitting from one of the world’s best wind resources and the ability to realise large-scale projects, increases overall profitability and risk-adjusted returns for our investors.”