The utility will provide several wind farms in Iowa with the 2.3 MW turbines. After commissioning in January 2012, the farms with a total capacity of 593 MW will produce sufficient energy to supply about 190,000 households. “Our largest onshore order to date from the U.S. demonstrates that we are well on track to becoming one of the three leading suppliers of wind turbines by 2012”, says René Umlauft, CEO of the Siemens Renwable Energy Division. (te)