Breath of fresh air from Iberdrola to Siemens Gamesa. The electricity company, through its British subsidiary ScottishPower, has put out to tender a contract worth 1,000 million pounds with Siemens Energy (1.2 billion euros) for the purchase of turbines from the brand with Spanish roots Gamesa. With this investment, The company directed by Ignacio Sánchez Galán gives oxygen to the mill manufacturerwhich in its third fiscal quarter cut its losses by five, although it remained in red numbers.
Gamesa will supply 64 offshore wind turbines of the SG 14-236 DD* model, with a 236 meter diameter rotor for ScottishPower’s third offshore wind project in the southern North Sea, called East Anglia TWO.
The mills for the complex offshore will be built in the Siemens Gamesa plant in the city of Hullwhich lived last July a start of union revolts due to salary disputes.
Once completed, the electricity company’s park in British waters, valued at 4.8 billion euros, will have a capacity of 960 megawatts (MW), enough to supply almost a million homes.
The use of Gamesa mills in the Spanish subsidiary is common and the cooperation between both companies in the United Kingdom, where the East Anglia ONE and THREE parks714 MW and 1,400 MWrespectively; They use Gamesa brand wind turbines.
Furthermore, both firms trace their origins back to the Basque Countrywhere Galán announced last week that he would place orders worth 3 billion euros from local companies.
Industrial reinforcement
This order will mean a important injection for Siemens Energy’s accounts which, in addition, also reinforces the position of the Hull plant, in the United Kingdom.
Last July, the union at that same factory, which employs about 1,300 people and has hired more than 600 in the last 12 months; announced that some 300 Siemens Gamesa workers had declared on strike for salary reasons.
However, thanks to negotiations with Gamesa, the union achieved a wage agreement with which the majority of workers at the Hull factory agreed, which includes an increase of 4.5% for 2024 and 3.9% for 2025.
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