OX2 signs 148 MW wind power deal with Aquila Capital and Google

Aquila Capital, an European asset manager of alternative investments, has signed a purchase agreement with renewable energy company OX2 for a turnkey wind farm with 41 turbines in northern Sweden.

The investment is secured by a ten-year PPA contract with Google for the purchase of electricity from the wind farm.

The wind farm will be built in Lehtirova, located between the municipalities of Gällivare and Pajala. The expected average production is 490 GWh per year which will make the farm one of the largest wind power projects to date in the Nordics.

Vestas will provide 41 V126-3.45 MW turbines with power optimised mode to 3.6 MW which will generate a total capacity of 148MW.

Susanne Wermter, Head of Special Infrastructure Team at Aquila Capital said:

“We have been successfully active in Scandinavia for several years now. This wind farm is remarkable in many regards: Because of its sheer size, the technical layout designed to optimally capture the strong and steady wind resources at site and the set-up with the seller OX2 as experienced developer and full-wrap EPC supplier and Google as off-taker for a defined proportion of the wind farms’ output. This set-up in combination with a technically strong project offers ideal conditions to involve ourselves deeper into the value chain of renewable energies and to enter a project at an earlier stage”.

Paul Stormoen, Managing Director of OX2 Wind, commented:

“We are pleased to establish this relationship with Aquila and to further expand our collaboration with Google. Reaching construction start for this project is once again a proof of OX2s core strength and focus; technical and financial wind farm optimization and supply of full-wrap EPC agreements”.

Paul Stormoen, Managing Director of OX2 Wind, added:

“Google has been carbon-neutral since 2007 and we are committed to powering 100% of our operations with renewable energy sources. Today’s announcement is Google’s 7th European wind power deal to date and reinforces our position as the world’s largest corporate renewable buyer” says Francois Sterin, Director of Global Infrastructure at Google".