However, it maintained its sales guidance of 2.7 gigawatts (GW) to 3GW for 2010, saying that 54% of orders for the year had been confirmed by the end of March.

Gamesa said turbine sales were just 468 megawatts (MW) in the first quarter, 43% lower than the 814MW sold in the same period in 2009.

However, during the first quarter, Gamesa said it received order confirmations of 530MW, compared to 438MW during the same period last year.

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