Siemens Gamesa upgrades 5.X onshore wind platform, reaches 100 installations

Siemens Gamesa (Zamudio, Spain) has launched a new product, the 5.X platform, with a rated power of 7 megawatts (MW). The SG 7.0-170 turbine offers a competitive levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in the industry, enabling customers to provide more clean power. The variant has evolved from the original SG 6.6-170 turbine and is particularly aimed at medium- to high-wind sites globally. 

The 5.X wind turbine, designed and built at its facilities in Agreda, Spain, and Vagos, Portugal, has attracted strong interest from customers since its launch, with sales of around 4.5 gigawatts (GW) to date from Brazil to Finland, Siemens Gamesa reports. Recently, the onshore platform reached its 100^th wind turbine installed at the 372-MW Björnberget wind farm near Ange, Sweden, for partners Prime Capital and Enlight. The 5.X is now installed in six projects in Sweden and Brazil, just one year after it was first introduced at the 231-MW Skaftåsen wind farm in Sweden. 

“The Siemens Gamesa 5.X has already offered our customers one of the most powerful machines providing green energy in the onshore landscape, and we can now boost its capacity even higher. This will provide real benefits for our partners, and we will work closely with them to guarantee we continue to deliver sustainable energy to the world with this benchmark turbine,” Siemens Gamesa’s CEO Jochen Eickholt says.  

The Siemens Gamesa 5.X is the largest unit capacity in the onshore portfolio, with a rated capacity of up to 7 MW, and the largest rotor diameters, 155 and 170 meters, resulting in maximum performance in high-, medium- and low-wind conditions. The 170-meter rotor is among the largest in the onshore segment, Siemens Gamesa says. The onshore platform incorporates the company’s proven technology, experience and expertise, based on its installed wind fleet of more than 104.5 GW worldwide, enough to power 90.2 million households.

“To reach a century of 5.X turbines installed in such a short time is a huge achievement for everyone in Siemens Gamesa, especially in the face of tough external challenges over the last few years,” Clark MacFarlane, CEO of Siemens Gamesa’s operations in Northern Europe and the Middle East, says. “The platform is delivering for our customers and for the end user, and we now look forward to reaching the next 100 of these turbines installed even sooner.”