"We're looking into other projects, and most probably you will be hearing soon some more closing of deals," Markus Rieck, sales director of Alstom in Germany, said during a panel at the Windforce conference that started here yesterday.

"We're going to fill this factory (St. Nazaire) beyond 2020."

Alstom – currently at the centre of a high-profile takeover battle – is building a 300MW nacelle factory in St.