Vestas started selling its V112-3.0 MW wind turbine for both onshore and offshore applications, and alsmost immediately bagged an order for 140 units (420 MW) from AGL Energy Limited and Meridian, for a wind farm project in Australia.

The Macarthur wind farm will have 420 MW of installed capacity, and is to be located Victoria, Australia. Vestas is to supply the turbines, installed them and commission them, as well as provide service and maintenance for ten years. As usual, the company is to deliver its VestasOnline Business SCADA solution. The first units are to start arriving at the wind farm site in Q3 2011, while the whole project is to be completed in H1 2013.

[source: Vestas]