Nordex Group receives order for 456 MW wind farm from Brazil

A joint venture between Macquarie Asset Management's Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein has placed an order with the Nordex Group for the supply and installation of 80 N163/5.X turbines for the “Feijão” wind farm in Brazil, the company said on Friday.

The order also includes a premium service for the turbines covering a period of 20 years, Nordex Group said in a statement.

The 456 MW wind farm will be built in the states of Piauí and Pernambuco in the north-east of Brazil, and the group will supply and instal the 80 N163 turbines as of autumn 2023 on concrete towers with a hub height of 120 metres. The wind farm will start operation in spring 2024.

The wind farm is part of the renewable energy project known as “Feijão,” a combined wind and solar energy project by the Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein with a total capacity of 586 MW, the company said.

“We are pleased to be able to support the Green Investment Group and Hydro Rein with our 5 MW turbine technology in the expansion of renewable energy in Brazil and thereby to help accelerate the decarbonisation of Hydro's production facilities,” Patxi Landa, CSO of the Nordex Group, said in a statement.

The clean energy produced will be supplied by the joint venture to Hydro’s aluminium refinery Alunorte and Hydro Paragominas the company’s bauxite mine on the basis of a long-term power purchase agreement, the company said.