Vestas paid $60m in cash for UpWind, which has 310 employees and is expected to generate $55m of consolidated revenue in 2015.

The acquisition, effective immediately, will have only a “limited effect” on Vestas’s 2015 results, with no change to its revenue or margin guidance, the company says.

San Diego-based UpWind is currently contracted to look after 3GW of wind capacity in nine US states.

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