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Vestas: Turbine order won't help Windsor plant
The first-quarter production shutdown at Vestas' wind turbine blade plant in Windsor will continue as planned, the company said Tuesday, despite an order for 18 wind turbines for a Canadian wind farm.
January 12, 2010
by Cathy Proctor
in Denver Business Journal
The first-quarter production shutdown at Vestas' wind turbine blade plant in Windsor will continue as planned, the company said Tuesday, despite an order for 18 wind turbines for a Canadian wind farm.
Denmark-based Vestas announced the 18-unit order on Monday. The buyer, TransAlta Corp. based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, is planning to expand an existing wind farm in New Brunswick, Canada, where 32 wind turbines were installed in 2008. TransAlta estimated the capital cost of the wind farm's 18-turbine expansion at $100 million.
But the blades for the turbines, which generate electricity from the wind's energy, won't be made in Windsor,... [continue via Web link]
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