Renewable energy producer African Clean Energy Developments (ACED) has placed an order for 144 MW for the Khangela Emoyeni wind farm, to be located in the Western Cape, South Africa. The contract includes the supply and installation of 32 V163-4.5 MW wind turbines, as well as a 10-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service contract.
This is ACED’s second order for V163-4.5 MW wind turbines in 2024. In June, they placed an order for 144 MW for the Umsinde Emoyeni wind farm, also located in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Sam Cook, Project Director of Procurement and Construction at ACED, highlights: “ACED and African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) have a relationship with Vestas that dates back to the inception of the wind energy industry in South Africa in 2011. We are very happy “We will place another order with Vestas, at the service of our buyer Rio Tinto, our shareholders and the communities around our project.”
“We are proud to continue our collaboration with ACED in South Africa. We are also pleased to see how the reliability and high capacity factor of our V163-4.5 MW wind turbines provide our customers with the business certainty they need for their projects in the country,” says the Managing Director of Vestas in South Africa. Novani Ganess-Johnson.
Delivery of the turbine is scheduled for the first half of 2025 and commissioning is scheduled for the first half of 2026.
Vestas is one of the leaders in South Africa’s wind energy market with more than 1.5 GW of capacity installed or under construction.
