The consortium planning a 1GW wind power build-out in Russia said it has signed the first order with OEM Vestas, which is in line to supply turbines to the projects.

The Fortum-Rusnano consortium sealed an agreement for 14 turbines totaling about 50MW with the Danish manufacturer, according to Finnish utility Fortum, which in partnership with local developer Rusnano won the lion’s share of the capacity on offer in a 1.65GW