Alpiq Vetrocom Wind Farm Phase II

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Swiss engineering group Alpiq Holding agreed in December 2010 to the extention of the 50 MW Vetrocom wind farm near the city of Kazanlak, Bulgaria, with 22.5 MW. This would bring total capacity to 72.5 MW. Alpiq Holding is a Swiss energy trading company, formed in 2009 through the merger of Atel Holding Ltd.n energie Ouest Suisse SA (EOS) and other smaller utilities, together with the Swiss branch of EDF. Atel Holding took over project developer Vetrocom back in 2008, when the project was still in development phase. The initial 50 MW existed of 20 turbines and was commissioned in November 2010. The first phase of this project was contracted to and successfully completed by Technomash-Bulgarian Industrial Group AD (Technomash), with services provided by Energy Competence Centre GmbH (ECC), a subsidiary company of Corporate Energies in Berlin, Germany. The turbines were reported as supplied by Indian Suzlon Wind Energy from Aarhus, Denmark, but later reported as supplied by Germany's Fuhrland. The extension of 22.5 MW, 9 turbines, were planned to be supplied by German Fuhrland. The project had earned the company a top-investor certificate, implying fast-track administration and other state support. The first phase of Vetrocom wind farm cost EUR80 million ($106 million). The second phase was projected to cost EUR36 million ($48 million). As of October 2011, no details about the financial structure of the project was available. Pushed from 2011.