Wind OEM Vestas has inaugurated a nacelle and hub assembly plant in Argentina – its second in the South American region after Brazil – as it sets out to comply with local content policies and meet growing demand in a local market where it now has 1.5GW of firm orders.

Located in the province of Buenos Aires, the country’s most industrialised and populous region, Vestas' plant is assembling the V136 platform, but has also been designed to handle the V150, 4.2MW