Vestas has booked a 184MW EPC deal for the Warradarge Wind Farm in Australia, an order the Danish OEM said takes it past the 1GW mark in the country this year.

Vestas will equip the project in Western Australia with its V136-3.45 MW turbines power-optimised to 3.6MW and with 84-metre hub heights.

The order comes from Bright Energy Investments, a joint venture between local power group Synergy, investment group DIF and pension fund Cbus.

Vestas said it will enter an ‘up to 30-year’ service agreement with the developer, and provide a yield-based availability guarantee to offer “long-term business case certainty”.

Warradarge is due to start operations in the third quarter of 2020.

Vestas Asia-Pacific president Clive Turton said the project “has extraordinary wind conditions and will make an important contribution to powering Western Australia with competitive renewable energy”.

The 1GW tally is Vestas’s best in a quarter of a century of activity in Australia, it said.

The order is among a late-December flurry that with a few days of 2018 to go takes Vestas to 12.2GW for the year to date.

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Vestas books 184MW to seal bumper year in Australia