China's Envision Energy announced on Tuesday that it has secured a contract to supply 138 wind turbines of 8 megawatts (MW) capacity each for a 1.1 gigawatts (GW) onshore wind farm in Egypt's Gulf of Suez region.

The scope of the contract also includes 25-year maintenance agreement, Envision said in a press statement.

Suez Wind Energy, a joint venture by Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power and Egypt's HAU Energy is developing the wind farm with financing provided by a group of European, African and Gulf-based development financing banks.

(Writing by Deva Palanisamy; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@lseg.com)

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