Danish wind OEM Vestas for the 1GW onshore pipeline won by the Fortum-Rusnano consortium together with the Finnish utility will work with local partners to establish a manufacturing and supply chain able in Russia able to fulfil local content requirements.

This includes setting up a blade factory in the region of Ulyanovsk that will be majority-owned by Vestas, as well as a nacelles assembly plant in the Nizhny Novgorod region and a towers factory in the Rostov region that will be operated by local partners, but produce Vestas products.