GE Renewable Energy (www.ge.com/renewableenergy) has been selected by OX2 to supply 24 of its Cypress onshore ‘wind platforms’ (with a two-piece blade design and a rotor diameter of 158m) for the 132MW Metsälamminkangas wind farm, in Finland.

OX2 will ‘operate’ the Cypress turbines at 5.5MW; the owner of the wind farm will be Lundin Petroleum.

The turbines will be equipped with GE’s Ice Mitigation System in order to ‘endure icing conditions’ for substantial parts of the year.

The installation of the wind turbines will commence in Q2 2021, and they should be operational by the end of 2021.

The deal with GE includes a multi-year service contract.

The nominal capacity of the wind farm is 132MW, and it is expected to generate 400GWhr of electricity per year — equivalent to the electricity consumption of more than 80,000 households (based on 5,000kW hr per household).