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Wind blade manufacturer Aeris Energy has ambitious plans and wants to fuel the US offshore power market — which plans to install 30 gigawatts of offshore wind farms by 2030
Aeris Energy, the Brazilian manufacturer of blades for wind turbines, aims to develop production lines aimed at turbines for offshore wind farms in the United States. The news was announced last Thursday (13/05), by the company's Director of Planning and Investor Relations, Bruno Lolli.
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Currently, Aeris Energy only manufactures wind blades for onshore power plant turbines. Thinking of expanding its business, the Brazilian company, which currently produces in Ceará, is targeting the United States as a new partner.
The executive recalled that, this week, the US Government approved the first large offshore wind generation project in Massachusetts, in the Atlantic Ocean, which will have 62 giant turbines.
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The US target represents more than the entire installed wind capacity in Brazil (18 gigawatts), which still does not have offshore projects from the source.
“We know that offshore sales are heated, especially in the US market, on the Atlantic coast, so we are actually going to start having negotiations and discussions to start producing offshore,” said Lolli. “The offshore market in the US is a super important market and we are going to participate in this market.”, she said.
According to him, the first conversations with potential customers should start later this year, with effective entry into the sector most likely scheduled for 2023 or 2024, when the segment will start to demand a greater volume of deliveries, potentially forcing companies producing turbines, which today make their own shovels, outsourcing part of the production.
Company prepares to produce onshore and offshore wind blades to serve larger turbines
Currently, Aeris produces blades up to 80 meters long at its manufacturing facilities in Pecém, while the more recently launched offshore wind turbines are 110 to 115 meters long.
But Lolli stated that the company has already been preparing for larger equipment, targeting both new generations of turbines on land and future offshore parks.
“The construction method, materials, suppliers, requirements, are the same. What makes offshore different is the size,” she explained.
“Today, all expansions that we are doing already allow us blades of up to 120 meters. We already have a tall, wide building, crane capacity, flooring, everything designed for larger blades, so we are actually capable.”
Aeris is close to closing new deals with global customers
The director also said that Aeris is close to closing new agreements involving the supply of wind turbine blades, after a large recent agreement with Siemens Gamesa, in the amount of R$ 3 billion.
“We already have some negotiations in progress, so it is likely that throughout the year we will have new announcements related to the positive variation in the order backlog.” The executive declined to provide further information, but said that conversations are with global customers already served by the company.
Lolli also said that an expansion that Aeris has been promoting in its facilities to meet the contract with Siemens Gamesa already focuses on new business.
He stated that these preparations included the purchase of land to increase the area occupied by the company from 320 thousand square meters to more than 1 million m².
Giant 80-meter wind turbine for Nordex — one of the largest wind turbine manufacturers in the world — embarks from the Port of Pecém on its way to Europe
It is impressive the size of the wind blade (or propellers) manufactured by Aeris Energy for the German Nordex — one of the largest manufacturers of wind energy turbines in the world! The shipment of the first unit of this giant — the largest wind turbine ever produced in the southern hemisphere — involved a specialized operation. The more than 80 meters in length required the involvement of several professionals, from manufacturing to transport to the Port of Pecém, in Ceará.
The record for boarding the giant 80,1 meter wind turbine (or propellers) for the German Nordex is celebrated by the Pecém port complex, in Ceará, as the largest in the history of Porto!
The wind blade (or propellers) is more than twice as long as the other blades (34,57 m each) shipped on the Trinitas vessel, and is already on its way to Europe, where the blade will undergo technical checks, according to the complex's managing company.
