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Vestas Brighton blade factory. Photo Credit: Vestas
Following several years of peaking demand cycles, Vestas – American Wind Technology (Portland, Oregon, U.S.) reported on Feb. 17 that it is consolidating its footprint in Colorado, in order to reflect lower near-term market demand, strengthen its Service and Construction setup and improve execution efficiency.
With the consolidation, Vestas is supporting growing business segments and ensuring the foundation for efficient adjustments and scale-up when demand increases again. The consolidation entails lower manufacturing capacity, which unfortunately involves reducing headcount by approximately 450 colleagues in total across three Colorado-based factories. Out of the 450 colleagues, Vestas expects to offer new roles in other parts of the business to approximately 150 impacted colleagues.
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Portland, 23 December 2020
Vestas has received a 138 MW order to repower a wind project in the U.S. With this order, Vestas will replace 73 existing V80-1.8 MW turbines with a total of 73 V110-2.0 MW turbines, including previously purchased 2 MW components.
With the largest global installed capacity and service base, Vestas is uniquely positioned to harness operational and technical insights gained from the largest wind data repository in the world, to develop repowering solutions for Vestas and non-Vestas wind turbines alike.
Repowering offers solutions for asset owners facing the higher operation and maintenance costs of an aging fleet and mitigates the complexities of sourcing spare parts for obsolete technology.