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BNDES Shuts Five Firms Out of Brazil Wind Turbine Market: Five of the biggest wind-turbine makers have been shu...

BNDES Shuts Five Firms Out of Brazil Wind Turbine Market: Five of the biggest wind-turbine makers have been shu...

Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Suzlon Energy Ltd., Siemens AG, Acciona SA and Fuhrlaender AG aren’t getting at least 40 percent of their parts from local suppliers and are no longer eligible for BNDES financing, the country’s only source of loans for turbines, said Elbia Melo, executive president of the wind industry trade group, Associacao Brasileira de Energia Eolica. Developers can’t tap BNDES loans for 2,000 megawatts of turbines they agreed to buy from the suppliers, and will either suspend construction on some projects or switch vendors, Melo said. The world’s top turbine makers are setting up Brazilian plants to meet surging demand and haven’t established the domestic supply chain they pledged to create, according to government officials. “BNDES and the turbine makers agreed on a timeline to develop factories and turbine makers didn’t keep to it,” Henrique Tinoco, a direc...

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