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FIRST WIND ENERGY PROJECT IN NORTH PELOPONNESE NEAR COMPLETION

Allready 41 windgenerators are installed at the top of mount Panachaiko (~1,900 m) .
The windgenerators are 900 KW each , total power production 35 MWH + option aproved for 16 more windgenerators.
According to specialists in the next few years it will be possible at least 5-7% of the energy needs of the city of Patras to be covered from the wind farm installation at Panachaiko !

The windgenerators are visible from far , especially from the region of Rio-Agios vasilios-Lampiri.

Vestas receives order for 41 units of V52-850 kW wind turbines for Greece


The Vestas Group has received an order for 41 units of V52-850 kW wind turbines for a project located near the town of Patras, on the Peloponnese in Greece.

The order has been placed by EOLIKI Panachaikou S.A., a company whose main investor and shareholder is CESA HELLAS, S.A. a Greek subsidiary of the Spanish company Corporación Eólica CESA, SA, which owns and operates several wind farms in Spain.

The order is for a turnkey project including a 5-year warranty, service and maintenance agreement. Delivery of the wind power plant will begin in July 2005 and commercial operation is scheduled to take place during the first quarter of 2006.


“The new Greek government has announced energy as an area of priority, which among others is expected to make the permitting process easier,” says Ditlev Engel, President and CEO of Vestas Wind Systems A/S and continues: “The development in Greece is positive and the Panachaikou project indicates that also foreign investors like CESA S.A. are interested in the Greek market”