Vestas will supply 75 V110-2.0 MW turbines to First Wind’sRoute 66 project near Amarillo, Texas.

Deliveries are expected in early 2015 with commissioning in mid-2015.

Vestas said the order is part of a “master supply agreement” that could seeit supply up to 568MW for multiple projects.

Turbines supplied to First Wind under the agreement come with a 10-yearservice agreement.

Vestas said it is hiring more staff at its three Colorado plants to  meet a spate of demand in the US, and expects"to add hundreds of production workers in the first half of 2014", mostly at itstwo blade factories.

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