A new wind turbine production facility has been launched in Zakarpattia

A new wind turbine production facility has been launched in Zakarpattia Facebook/frendliwt

Anna Velyka

This is another step towards strengthening the stability and reliability of the energy system of Ukraine

Friendly Wind Technologies has launched a newly built workshop that will produce up to 20 wind turbines per year with a unit capacity of 4.8 to 5.5 MW.

The wind turbine manufacturer announced this on its Facebook page.

Friendly Windtechnology LLC is currently the only national manufacturer of multi-megawatt wind turbines. After the start of the full-scale invasion, the company, as part of the group of companies LLC MC Wind Parks of Ukraine, was forced to relocate its production facilities to Transcarpathia.

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Photo: Facebook/ukrwindenergyassociation.

"Our new production line for the manufacture of wind turbines (WTUs) is ready for operation! We are increasing our capacity to meet the growing demand for clean energy," the company announced.

Facebook/ukrwindenergyassociation

Photo: Facebook/ukrwindenergyassociation.

In general, the company's ambitious package of projects envisages the construction of more than 500 MW of capacity.

As EcoPolitic reported in January, Ukrainian Wind Parks LLC started construction of the first wind farm in Zakarpattia Oblast with a total capacity of about 80 MW. The first wind turbine with a capacity of 4.8 MW was installed within the Ostrovsky wind farm in the Nizhnyovoritsk community, on the border of the Lviv and Zakarpattia regions.

EcoPolitic also wrote about what is new wind farm in Truskavets will help the community earn 2 million hryvnias per year.
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