Turbine maker Siemens Gamesa has landed a breakthrough order with Algonquin Power for the 175MW Blue Hill wind power project in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, building the OEM’s belief in developers’ “renewed interest” in the country’s once highly-touted Prairies play.

The order, which will be filled with 35 of Siemens Gamesa’s 5MW SG5.0-145 machines, comes on the back of a