FRANKFURT, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Siemens Energy's wind division plans to build a $500 million
production site for nacelles in the United States if its
offshore turbines are selected in an upcoming local tender, it
said on Monday.
This would make it the fourth production facility for
Siemens Gamesa in the United States, where the maker
of onshore and offshore turbines already has two production
sites and announced a third plant in 2021.
The U.S. renewables market, the world's second-biggest after
China, continues to draw project developers and equipment
makers, partly driven by the government's Inflation Reduction
Act, designed to boost green technologies locally.
Siemens Gamesa's planned site in the state of New York would
create around 420 jobs, the company said, provided its turbines
are selected in the state's third procurement round, which will
be between 2 gigawatts (GW) and 4.7 GW in volume.
"The announcement of this proposed facility in New York is a
major step forward in our desire to lead the massive U.S.
offshore wind market," said Marc Becker, CEO of Siemens Gamesa's
offshore business, in a statement.
As part of the proposal, Siemens Gamesa said it was also
committed to "localizing several new component supplier
facilities including steel component fabrication, bearings, and
composite components".
Siemens Gamesa is currently in the process of being delisted
by parent Siemens Energy as part of efforts to fully integrate
the division and fix operational problems that have become a
drag on profits.
(Reporting by Christoph Steitz, Editing by Miranda Murray and
Andrea Ricci)
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