Gamesa wins contract to build Syria’s first wind energy plant

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14 January 2011

The wind farm will be located southwest of the central city of Homs. Vestas, the world's largest maker of wind turbines, will develop a wind power project with generation capacity of 50 to 100MW. Gamesa, one of the world's leading companies in the design, manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines and a top wind farm developer.

Syria awarded Gamesa a contract to build the country's first wind power plant and Germany's Sunset Energietechnik GmbH another for a solar power plant The National Energy Research Center selected Gamesa out of five bidders to build a 60-million euro wind farm for power generation that will have a capacity of 50MWs. The wind farm will be located southwest of the central city of Homs.

Vestas, the world's largest maker of wind turbines, will develop a wind power project with generation capacity of 50 to 100MW south of Damascus. The country's demand for power stood at 44.5 billion kWs in 2009, up 5.9% from the previous year, according to figures from the state-run Public Establishment for Electrical Generation and Transfer. Power supply reached 43.3 billion kWs last year, an increase of 5.6% from 2008.