Gamesa India said that it would manufacture and launch next generation G114-2 MW wind turbines by end-2015.
On Thursday, Gamesa Executive Chairman, Ignacio Martin, and its Business CEO, Xabier Exteberria, inaugurated the new production line at its Nacelles plant at Mamandur, about 70 km from Chennai, for the manufacture of the larger wind turbines with longer rotors.
Briefing reporters, Gamesa India, Chairman and Managing Director, Ramesh Kymal, said: “The prototype for G114 will be ready by March 2015, and we are planning to produce 50 turbines of 100 MW capacity.
With the proposed launch, the production line in the Mamandur plant will have facilities to assemble two models (G97-2 MW and G114-2 MW).”
The Mamandur plant would produce about 90 per cent of G114-2 MW by 2016 by which time G97-2MW would be phased out. Mr. Xabier said that the global launch of G114-2.5 MW would happen by May 2015, and the delivery would take place during 2015-16.
Mr. Kymal said that the company was making its maiden foray into the offshore project off the coast of Gujarat.
