EDF Renewables North America has won a deal to provide operations and maintenance (O&M) services for three wind farms totalling 430MW that were recently acquired by Ares Management Corp. from oil giant BP.

Shortly after Ares acquired the wind farms last month, turbine maker Vestas announced an order to repower -- or upgrade -- the projects, with plans to begin swapping out the ageing Clipper machines for new Vestas V110-2.2