Vestas has announced 1,143MW of new turbine orders from around the world, including the US, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brazil, New Zealand and the UK.

This influx brings the Danish turbine maker’s total orders for the first quarter to 2,215MW — a new record for the company, and an 88% increase on Q1 2018.

Jacob Pedersen, an analyst at Sydbank, said he expects Vestas to add around 600MW of unannounced orders to this total.

Vestas will see a record 14.5GW of orders in 2019, he forecasts.

The two largest of the nine orders were both in Brazil, with 361MW from Engie Brasil, the largest private energy producer in the country, and 206MW from Quadran Brasil, a subsidiary of French multinational Quadran International. Both orders were for the 4.2MW V150 model — 86 machines for Engie’s Campo Largo Phase 2 wind farm in the state of Bahia, and 49 units for Quadran’s 206MW Serrote facility in Ceará.

New Zealand-based utility Mercury ordered 33 of Vestas’ V112-3.45MW machines (in 3.6MW “Power Optimised Mode” for the 119MW Turitea wind farm near Palmerston North, 140km north of Wellington, as part of an engineering, procurement and construction contract with the Danish OEM. Vestas has also signed a 25-year service agreement for the completed project, with a yield-based availability guarantee on both the turbines and the balance of plant in order to maximise energy output for the lifetime of the facility.

Vestas received its first order in Southeast Asia for ten of its V150-4.2MW machines, destined for a project in Vietnam being built by an undisclosed foreign investor.

The OEM also announced two orders from the US — for 182MW of 4.2MW V150 machines from an undisclosed customer, and for 143MW of 3.45MW V126 turbines from Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. The latter order is for the second phase of the 162MW Bearkat wind farm in Texas, where 19MW is already installed, and includes a 30-year service agreement.

In addition, a 43MW order for 12 V105-3.6MW machines was received for the 43MW Changhua wind farm in Taiwan, from its owners Foxwell Energy, a subsidiary of Foxlink Group, and TCC Green Energy, a subsidiary of TCC Group. The sale includes Vestas’ first 20-year service contract in Taiwan.

The flurry of order announcements over the weekend follows a 47MW subsidy-free order in Scotland, and another subsidy-free order for a 17MW wind farm in Denmark, which was were both announced on Friday.