Financial terms were not released. The contract requires that Siemens manufacture rotor blades for the 2.3MW turbines at its plant in Tillsonburg, Ontario, which will enable Windstream to meet the provincial 50% local content requirement under the feed-in tariff programme.
Siemens recommended that the project uses the 2.3MW turbine, a small unit by global offshore standards, which the German company has employed as an onshore workhorse for years, says Baines.
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