NOUADHIBOU WIND FARM Mauritania, West Africa Customer: SNIM Wind Turbine: 16 Vergnet GEV MP-C, 275kW, 32m rotor diameter, 55m hub height Total power: 4.4 MW Commissioned: 2011 Operations and Maintenance: SNIM Nouadhibou Wind Farm-Mauritania Vergnet GEV MP Wind Turbines Deliver Energy and Cost Savings for SNIM Iron Mine Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière (SNIM), Af ric a’s second largest producer of iron ore, operates a mine in Zouerate and exports the ore from the port of Nouadhibou, Mauritania, in Western Africa. The facility is powered by a 16 MW diesel plant equipped with 4 diesel gensets, feeding a 5.5 kV grid. Consumers are essentially motors for ore conveyors and crushers. Considering the powerful wind potential of the Nouadhibou site (8.78m/s at hub height), S

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