Suzlon enters Turkish market

Suzlon, India’s leading and world’s fifth largest wind power solutions company, made a breakthrough into the Turkish wind energy market with an order for 31.5 MW of wind turbine capacity. The contract with Ayen Enerji Co. Inc. will be supplied through 15 units of Suzlon’s S88 – 2.1 MW turbine.

Speaking on the order, Mr. Erik Winter Pedersen, CEO of Suzlon Wind Energy AS, the Denmark-headquartered marketing arm of the company focusing on Europe and Latin America, stated: “This is an exciting opportunity and we are very pleased to partner with Ayen Enerji. We have a winning combination with Suzlon’s experience in large, successful wind projects around the world and Ayen’s considerable experience in Turkey’s energy market.”

Turkish utility major Ayen Enerji is a new entrant in wind energy with principal focus on production, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity. Together with its subsidiaries, The Company has three hydroelectric and one natural gas power plants, with total annual capacity of nearly 1.2 billion kWh.

Speaking on the order, Mr. Andre Horbach, CEO – Suzlon Group said: “We have great expectations for the Turkish market, and we are very pleased with the professionalism we have met, and that seems to be a cornerstone in the Turkish business philosophy.

Speaking for Ayen Enerji, General Manager Mr. Fahrettin Arman stated: “We are happy to cooperate with Suzlon in this project and our investments will continue within developing wind energy sector of Turkey so we intend to cooperate with Suzlon in our future projects.”    

Turkey has an estimated wind energy potential of 53 TWh/year. Renewable energy has strong national support – with a target of achieving 12% of all power production from renewables by 2010, translating to an estimated target of 12,000 MW from wind. (Source: Emerging Energy Research: European Wind Power, June 2006.)

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