Spanish company ACCIONA Energía has put its 78-mw capacity Bannur wind park into service in India. It is the fourth owned by the company in the country, taking its operational capacity there to 163.8 mw, a release from the company said.
Located in Bijapur district in Karnataka, the Bannur project has twenty-six AW125/3000 Nordex-Acciona Windpower wind turbines (rotor diameter 125m) mounted on 120m high concrete towers.
The new facility will generate an estimated 242 GWh of electricity per year, that will be supplied under a long-term power purchase agreement to Bangalore Electricity Supply Company, a state government-owned power distribution utility in Karnataka.
This project is the first directly-developed and built by ACCIONA in India, the release noted. The concrete towers on which the turbines will be mounted have been built close to the site in a purpose-built facility.
ACCIONA is the first Spanish company to install a wind farm in India. It did so in 2007.
The turbine nacelles have mostly been assembled in the plant set up by Nordex-Acciona Windpower – a company partly owned by ACCIONA – in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This factory assembles the AW3000 wind turbine, a 3-MW machine in its class II and III versions, which are ideal for sites with the medium-to-low winds that prevail in India.
With Bannur, ACCIONA now operates and owns its fourth wind farm in India after Anabaru (16.5 mw), Arasinagundi (13.3 mw) and Tuppadahalli (56.1 mw), all located in Karnataka as well.
(Photos: Acciona)
