Company enters wind energy space locally

As engineering solutions provider Zest WEG’s holding company, Brazil-based WEG, is already well-established in the wind energy sector in South America, Zest WEG is developing its own momentum in this segment locally. According to Zest WEG integrated solutions executive Alastair Gerrard, the role of WEG in wind energy has grown well beyond supplying generators to other original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Having developed its own direct drive, gearless wind turbine with a technology partner, and then acquiring that business in 2016, WEG is now a “turbine OEM with ambition”.