Vestas Northern Europe has received an order from Sjisjka Vind AB for delivery of 30 units of the V100-2.6 MW wind turbine. Sjiskja Vind AB is a project finance company co-owned by wind developer O2 (25 per cent), utility provider Jämtkraft (25 per cent) and construction company Skanska Infrastructure Development (50 per cent). The turbines will be installed at the Sjisjka wind park in a sub-mountainous area in the municipality of Gällivare in the northern parts of Sweden.

The order has a total capacity of 78 MW making it one of the largest onshore wind parks to be built in Sweden. The expected annual energy production of 200 GWh will provide electricity to approx 43,000 Swedish households.

The contract includes supply, installation and commissioning of the turbines, a VestasOnline® Business SCADA system and a five-year service agreement - Active Output Management (AOM) 5000.