Vestas Manufacturing Rus has held a ceremony to mark the first ever export shipment of wind turbine blades the company assembles.
According to Rusnano, a batch of 48 blades was sent from the Vestas Manufacturing Rus factory in Ulyanovsk to the customer in Denmark to build a new wind turbine park. This in the first time in the history of the country’s national power plant engineering sector that one of the key components of wind turbines was manufactured in Russia and exported.
A batch of turbine blades, each 62 metres long and weighing 12.5 tons, will be transported by road from the factory to the port of Togliatti, and from there to Denmark on board of two vessels, to reach the destination by the middle of May.
The blades are designed for Vestas V126 turbines, which have a capacity of 3.45 MW, and they will enable the customer to construct 55 MW of new wind energy generation capacity.
The Vestas Manufacturing Rus plant, which was launched in December 2018, is Russia’s only producer of composite blades for wind turbines. The production facility is located in the aviation cluster in Ulyanovsk.
The blades are designed for wind turbines with a capacity of 3.4 to 4.2 MW. It is planned that more than 250 blades will be produced in 2020, and that this figure will increase to 300 in 2021.
The partners in the project are Vestas, RUSNANO and the Ulyanovsk Region Investor Consortium, which includes ULNANOTECH, Ulyanovsk nanocluster and Aquilon. More than 2 bn rubles ($27.1 mn) have been invested in the project and more than 400 jobs have been created at the high-tech production facility.