Chicago-based E.ON Climate & Renewables North America, a subsidiary of E.ON AG (Xetra: EOAN) of Germany, one of the world's largest energy companies, this week announced it ordered 112 of Vestas' V100-1.8 MW turbines for an undisclosed American wind-energy project. The specific model of turbines is designed to provide maximum capture of wind at lower speeds.
The terms of the 202-megawatt agreement include delivery and commissioning of the turbines along with a five-year service and maintenance agreement. Delivery is scheduled for the first half of next year and the project is expected to be commissioned in mid-2012. Once complete, it will provide enough electricity to power more than 60,000 homes for a year.
This deal marks the Danish wind giant's sixth North American deal of 2011, and furthers E.ON's expansion into the American renewables market, particularly wind.
This past spring, E.ON completed its fourteenth U.S. wind facility in Illinois and has another one on tap in the state. Early this year, the company said it plans to build out several wind farm sites along the Texas Gulf Coast in the next two to four years. The company currently has 2 GW of installed wind capacity in the United States.
E.ON, which sank more than a billion euros into renewable energy projects in 2010, has stated plans to invest a further 2.6 billion euros into the clean sector between 2011 and 2013.
