Suzlon claims recompliance with Brazil content rules

A Suzlon wind turbine plant

Indian wind turbine producer Suzlon claims it has put itself back in compliance with local-content rules in Brazil – but only after belatedly being told that hub assembly was a key issue.

Suzlon is one of a raft of foreign turbine manufacturers suspended from the Finame scheme run by Brazilian development bank BNDES, which offers wind developers access to cheap finance.

BNDES imposed the suspensions when it started auditing the manufacturers over alleged breaches of local-content requirements, locking out Vestas, Siemens, Fuhrlander, Clipper and Acciona, in addition to Suzlon, which has been off the list since May.

Now Recharge has learned that the Indian group has invited the BNDES auditors to return to its production plant in Maracanaú, Ceará state, next week to…

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