India's Continuum Wind Energy awarded Germany's Senvion a 250-megawatt (MW) conditional order for the turnkey supply and commissioning of 108 Senvion 2.3M130 turbines for a wind project in northwest India, Senvion announced Monday.
Located in the Gujarat state, the Bhuj wind project includes a 20-year comprehensive operations and maintenance contract. "The installation of the turbines is expected to start in the second half of 2019 and is planned to be completed by the beginning of 2020," a press release read.
Senvion India's managing director, Amit Kansal, said this was the first announced order in India for a 130-meter rotor in the 2MW class turbine.
The turbines are expected to supply enough energy for almost 288,000 Indian households. Arvind Bansal, chief executive officer of Continuum Wind Energy, said the Bhuj wind farm was their largest wind project to date.
"With this, we emphasize our claim to support India's ambitious goal to achieve an installed capacity of 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy sources till 2022," he added.
According to the statement, Continuum Wind Energy is one of India's leading independent wind power producers and has already won a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for the project in the fourth bidding round from Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited - a company of the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Continuum Wind Energy is majority owned by North Haven Infrastructure Partners, a $4 billion global infrastructure fund managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, which has made multiple investments in Continuum Wind since 2012.
With this contract signature, the total order book of Senvion in India in 2018 is now approximately 680 MW, the statement added.
