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Gamesa plans to complete Phase I of Nellore plant by September

CHENNAI: Chennai-based Gamesa India, the country subsidiary of Spanish wind power developer Gamesa, is building an integrated factory in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, going for the southern state for uninterrupted power and ease of doing business. The Nellore facility is part of the 100-Euro investment plan announced earlier.

Gamesa will manufacture rotor blades for starters, and has plans of developing the factory for export. It currently runs two factories in Tamil Nadu and two in Gujarat. Gamesa will manufacture the 2MW, 114-m diameter rotor blade from the Nellore factory, a kind of rotor blade its India Chief Ramesh Kymal believes is just at the optimum level and any more bigger machines could impact cost of energy metrics for its investors. The new factory will have an employment generation capacity of close to 1,000 people in three years. "We chose Andhra Pradesh because we wanted to set up the new plant south of the Vindhyas, and AP has been showing great potential," said Ramesh Kymal, Chairman and Managing Director of Gamesa India. He added that uninterrupted power and a supportive bureaucracy for setting up the plant were pluses. Gamesa India is hoping to commission the rotor blade set up in Nellore by September. the factory will also manufacture solar inverters for India, to aid Gamesa's entry into solar last year.