Profit at the Wind Power unit increased 20% to €63m ($86m) in the first quarter of the company’s fiscal year ending on Dec. 31, 2013, from a year earlier, lifted by a 15% increase in revenue that included an expansion of the division’s service business.

Orders in Wind Power shot up 94% to €2.26bn in the quarter, pushed higher by a major US onshore wind contract that is the largest in the division ever.

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