Vestas receives 145 MW order in the USA for delivery in 2007
Copenhagen Stock Exchange
Nikolaj Plads 6
1067 Copenhagen K
Randers, 29 March 2007
Stock exchange announcement No. 10/2007
Vestas receives 145 MW order in the USA for delivery in 2007
Vestas has received an order in the USA for 88 units of V82-1.65 MW wind
turbines for the Blue Sky Green Field project in the state of Wisconsin.
The order has been placed by We Energies. We Energies is the trade name of
Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and Wisconsin Gas LLC, the principal utility
subsidiaries of Wisconsin Energy Corporation. We Energies serves more than 1.1
million customers with electricity in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Delivery of the turbines will commence in the fourth quarter of 2007. Vestas
will supply and commission the 88 wind turbines, and the order also includes a
two-year maintenance and service agreement.
“Vestas is delighted to secure this order with a leading Midwest utility. The
Blue Sky Green Field project will be the largest wind power plant to date in the
state of Wisconsin,” says Jens Søby, President of Vestas Americas A/S and
continues, “Vestas is excited to continue our existing relationship with We
Energies which originated in 1999 with the supply of We Energies' two Byron wind
turbines.”
The above order does not affect the Vestas Group's expectations for 2007 cf.
Stock exchange announcement No 6/2007 of 20 March 2007.
Any questions may be addressed to Jens Søby, President of Vestas Americas A/S,
telephone +1 503 830 5000, or to Peter Wenzel Kruse, Vice President of
Communication & IR at Vestas Wind Systems A/S, telephone +45 9730 0000.
Yours sincerely
Vestas Wind Systems A/S
Ditlev Engel
President and CEO
