Under the contract, awarded by Odell Wind Farm, Vestas will deliver and commission a total of 100 V82-1.65 MW wind turbines.

Odell Wind Farm is a joint venture between Algonquin Power and a third party.

The order also includes a 10-year Active Output Management (AOM 5000) service agreement, which comprises an energy-based availability guarantee ensuring that turbines’ operations.

Vestas US and Canada sales and service division president Chris Brown said: "We are excited to build yet another successful project with Algonquin, this time using our V110-2.0 MW turbine.

"With today’s order, we have announced almost 1,500 MW of orders in the US and Canada for the V110 machine, which has rapidly become our flagship in the North American market, and the industry standard for providing reliable energy at a competitive cost over its full operating life."

Vestas has secured orders representing approximately 2GW in 2014 in the US.

The turbines are scheduled to be delivered starting in the third quarter of 2015 and the project is anticipated to start operations by the end of next year.

The Odell wind project, which is being built across four counties on 23,000 acres of land, would generate 816.6GW-hrs of energy per year.