Aluar Awards Vestas with 81MW Wind Farm Order

Aluar Aluminio has awarded Vestas with an order for the 81 MW Llano IV Wind Farm to be established in the Chubut province of Argentina. The project will feature 18 V150-4.5 MW, which Vestas will provide and install.

After the completion of the order, Vestas will also deliver a 20-year Active Output Management 5000 (AOM 5000) service agreement to Aluar. This agreement will optimize energy production while also ensuring long-term business case certainty.

The wind complex in El Llano will supply renewable electricity for Aluar’s aluminium smelting operations in Puerto Madryn, the largest in the country, and will aid Aluar in meeting the requirement from the Argentinian authorities for large electricity consumers to get a portion of their consumption from renewable sources.

The turbine delivery is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2022, while the commissioning can be expected to happen in the third quarter of 2023.

“Vestas is pleased to grow our partnership with Aluar, one of the largest aluminium smelters in South America, who, as Vestas, has a strong commitment to Argentina’s energy transition,” says Andrés Gismondi, Sales Senior Director, Vestas LATAM South Cone. “This order materialises the third expansion of the El Llano wind complex that will soon have a total of 246 MW of sustainable energy coming from Vestas´s turbines to power Aluar’s aluminium smelting facilities in Puerto Madryn. This underlines how Vestas´ solutions can support energy-intensive industries to accelerate their energy transition by powering their operations with cost-efficient and sustainable energy”.