Siemens Gamesa Secures $20.4 Million Wind Farm Contract in Morocco

20.4 million dirhams (with a foreign exchange component of 3.4 million dollars). This was the lowest financial bid that allowed Siemens Gamesa to win the tender launched last June by the National Office of Electricity and Drinking Water (ONEE) against the Chinese consortium composed of the CRRC Dalian, CACS and Zhongtian Huineng groups of Tianjin, which offered 5.67 million US dollars. The operation and maintenance of the Dhar Saadane site have thus been entrusted to the German-Spanish company for a period of 12 months.

Commissioned in 2009, the Tangier-Dhar Saadane wind farm (about twenty kilometers from Tangier) is the largest in Africa. It consists of 126 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 107.1 MW.