Siemens Energy has been awarded six wind turbine contracts during the past months worth more than $900 million.
Siemens Energy, the Orlando-based U.S. wind power generation division of Siemens AG, will deliver part of the orders. It will make 66 wind turbines for Competitive Power Ventures for an Oklahoma wind farm; 44 turbines for Duke Energy to be deployed in Wyoming; 26 turbines for Cannon Power Group in Washington State; and 44 turbines for Pattern Energy to be installed in California.
Part of the order will be filled in Canada for Canadian projects.
Siemens has been in the wind-generation market since 2004. It is building a turbine assembly plant in Hutchison, Kan., that will open in the fall of 2010 and employ 400 workers. It also recently expanded a blade manufacturing plant in Iowa that opened in 2007.
