Vestas secured seven-year service and maintenance renewal from TransAlta for 50 V90-3.0 MW wind turbines in New Brunswick, Canada

Aarhus, Denmark, 19-2-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Vestas has secured a seven-year service and maintenance renewal from TransAlta for 50 V90-3.0 MW wind turbines at the Kent Hills wind power plant in New Brunswick, Canada.

“This contract extension demonstrates our strong relationship with Canada’s largest investor-owned renewable energy provider,” said Chris Brown, president of Vestas’ sales and service division in Canada and the United States. “It shows their confidence in both our products and our skilled service team. We look forward to helping TransAlta continue to get the best possible return on their investment through 2020.”

The service agreement features the Active Output Management (AOM) 5000 offering. AOM 5000 is an energy-based availability guarantee that ensures the turbines are operational when the wind is blowing. This service option includes the VestasOnline® surveillance system that remotely controls and monitors the turbines and predicts potential maintenance issues. This allows Vestas to plan maintenance so the turbines operate with the maximum amount of production.

Kent Hills was fully commissioned in 2008 and has the installed electrical capacity to power about 45,000 Canadian households.

Vestas installed its first wind turbine in Canada in 1997 and since has become the leading supplier in the country with more than 1,600 turbines and 2,700 MW cumulatively in every province — enough installed electrical capacity to power 800,000 homes.

For more information please contact

Andrew Longeteig
Head of Communications, North America
Global MarCom & Corporate Relations

Vestas – American Wind Technology, Inc.
T +1 503 327 7479
M +1 503 953 3427
anlon@vestas.com

About Vestas
Every single day, Vestas wind turbines deliver clean energy that supports the global fight against climate change. Wind power from Vestas’ more than 51,000 wind turbines currently reduces carbon emissions by over 60 million tons of CO2 every year, while at the same time building energy security and independence. Vestas has delivered wind energy in 73 countries, providing jobs for about 16,000 passionate people at our service and project sites, research facilities, factories and offices all over the world. With 62 percent more megawatts installed than our closest competitor and more than 60 GW of cumulative installed capacity worldwide, Vestas is the world leader in wind energy. Vestas’ U.S. and Canadian sales and service headquarters is in Portland, Ore., and its global headquarters is in Aarhus, Denmark.

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