The Vestas Services Philippines Inc. is scheduled to be inaugurated this evening and will eventually hire 200 local employees by 2011 with an initial start this year of 100 hirees. They currently have 25 employees already in their stable.
The site will support Vestas global operations providing backend support for the operation of 11,500 turbines worldwide. Their tasks include surveillance, service desk and programming. Vestas already has similar facilities in Denmark, Singapore and the US.
The company said that they were considering seven other countries but chose the Philippines because of the skilled talent poll here and the abundant wind energy sources in the country. Vestas has been responsible for supplying the 20 turbines in the wind farms in Ilocos Norte.
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Category: Wind, Investment
