Offshore wind giant Siemens Gamesa is “actively examining” plans to build a $200m turbine blade plant in Virginia, where it has secured the biggest conditional order yet seen in the US sector.

Abby Watson, Siemens Gamesa’s North America head of government affairs, told a legislative hearing that the OEM is having “robust conversations” in the state, where it recently won the preferred supply deal for the 2.6GW