Vestas remains upbeat about Australia's wind market

Vestas blades being unloaded in Melbourne en route to the Macarthur wind farm

AGL

By Oliver Wagg Brisbane

 Thursday, March 01 2012

Updated: Monday, November 26 2012

Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas remains bullish about the Australian market.



The company continues to win major orders there, despite question marks over carbon pricing — the opposition says it will repeal the legislation if it wins the next federal election, due by November 2013 — and toughening macroeconomic conditions worldwide.

Ken McAlpine, Vestas’ Asia-Pacific director of policy and government relations, says that in spite of the company’s move to cut 2,300 jobs globally, business conditions in Australia remain robust.

The company says the job cuts will not have any impact on its contract to supply turbines to Tasmania’s biggest wind farm,…

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