Spanish wind turbine maker Gamesa has won a contract to construct a 24-megawatt wind project in Jamaica, its first ever contract in the country.
The contract was signed with Wigton Windfarm Ltd., a subsidiary of Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica. Gamesa will install 12 of its G80-2.0 MW wind turbines at the Wigton III facility being built in Manchester, to the south of the island. The turbines are due to be delivered during the third quarter of this year and the facility is slated for commissioning by February 2016.
Gamesa has a portfolio of over 200 megawatts in the Caribbean and Central America, having developed wind farms in countries such as Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico, where it also performs operations and maintenance services.