“After staying out for a couple of years, Vestas is back,” he said.
“Our CEO [Anders Runevad], who knows Brazil well, has made it clear that he wants Vestas to be one the leaders in Brazil's wind power industry,” Lazo told Recharge.
Although Lazo was named Brazil country president in April this year, joining from Areva, Vestas had already started drawing up plans for the country's wind market based on annual growth of some 20%.
Vestas currently has 700MW of turbines installed, or 16% of Brazil's total operating and non-operating wind power capacity of 4.5GW,
