Vestas wins largest Philippine wind turbine order

Burgos wind farm will produce 233,000 MWh per year.

Danish firm Vestas Wind Systems A/S as won an 87 megawatt wind turbine order in the Philippines for 29 V90 3 MW turbines. Delivery of the turbines will begin in the last quarter of this year and commissioning of the plant is scheduled for the second half of 2014.

Once operational, the Burgos wind power plant in Ilocos Norte province in northern Luzon will produce 233,000 MWh of electricity per year, sufficient to power over a million households, and will displace around 115,000 tons of carbon dioxide annually.

In 2011, the Philippines had a cumulative installed wind capacity of 33 MW and is expected to install in excess of 500 MW by 2020. The Philippines’ only operational wind power plant was completed in 2008 and utilizes 20 units of the Vestas’ V82-1.65 MW turbine.