Alstom wins EUR 400m wind turbine contract in Brazil
(PARIS) - French engineering firm Alstom said Friday it had won two contracts worth around 400 million euros ($546 million) to set up wind turbines in the northeast of Brazil.
Alstom inked the deal with Queiroz Galvao, one of Brazil's leading infrastructure groups, to install its large rotor ECO 122 turbines at two prominent wind farms in Piaui state.
The company said in a statement that the turbines would "boost energy yield in low and medium wind regions."
It added the two wind farms where the turbines will be set up -- Caldeirao Grande I and II -- will generate enough energy to deliver electricity to around 600,000 people.
The turbines will be delivered between 2015 and 2017.
Alstom has been operating in Brazil since 1956. In 2011, it inaugurated a new wind turbine manufacturing plant in the northeastern Brazilian city of Camacari, its first in Latin America.