Availon wins 124MW wind farms maintenance contract in Italy

Paul Boughton

Availon has won a 124MW maintenance contract for two Italian wind farms from Alpiq Holding Ltd, the Swiss energy group that owns and operates the two farms. The full service maintenance contract runs for a 10 year period, and covers 62 Gamesa wind turbines.

Both wind farms are located in Sicily. Availon have taken over responsibility for the maintenance of the wind turbines, after the expiry of the wind farms warranty period. The 40MW Enpower 3 Wind farm consists of twenty 2MW G8X Gamesa turbines, located in Cattolica Eraclea, in the Agrigento region.

The 84MW Aero-Rossa wind farm, located in Cammarata (AG), Castronovo di Sicilia (PA) and Vallelunga Pratameno (CL), close to Palermo, has been in service since September 2011. It consists of forty-two 2MW G90 turbines.

The 'Complete Modular' maintenance service agreement includes all planned and unplanned maintenance work except for main component failures, as well as technical and energetic availability guarantees. Alpiq, which fully owns the two wind farms, has secured an extensive spare parts inventory, which will be used be Availon to provide a maintenance service at the highest standard of efficiency and quality.