Gamesa wins 100 Mw Wind Power Project from Hero Future

Order value undisclosed; this is Gamesa's second order from Hero Group in a year

Gamesa India has signed a 100 Mw Wind Power Project Order with Hero Future Energies (HFE), a venture of The Hero Group that caters to providing renewable energy. The value of the order was not disclosed.

Gamesa will supply and erect 50 units of G97-2.0 Mw turbines with a tower height of 104 metres at Dhar site in Madhya Pradesh. The commissioning is scheduled for completion by March 2016.

This is the second order Gamesa has won from the Hero Group within a year's time, with the last one being commissioned in March 2015 for a 90 MW project.

Rahul Munjal, Managing Director of Hero Future Energies (HFE), commented that this is HFE's first self-development project in India.

"We are encouraged by universal success of the self-development strategy. When combined with turnkey projects, alongside key industry players, this project will provide diversification to our firm. Completing this and other such developments in the pipeline, our cumulative installed capacity is likely to be over 500 Mw by 2016."