Weerawong, Chinnavat & Partners and Norton Rose Fulbright are advising Southeast Asian wind power operator Wind Energy Holdings’ (WEH) on the development and construction of 5x90MW wind farm projects in the Nakhon Ratchasima province of Thailand. 

Norton Rose Fulbright assisted WEH on the negotiations of key project documents including the turbine supply agreements and other infrastructure contracts and also led for the lenders, Siam Commercial Bank, on the project financing of those projects. 

WEH currently manages over 92 percent of Thailand’s wind power generation. By 2018, and with completion of its latest five projects, WEH will commercially operate a total of 720MW generation capacity from eight projects with more than 250 wind turbines installed. 

The Norton Rose Fulbright team on the project was led by Asia-Pacific head of energy, Vincent Dwyer with Simon Currie, global head of energy, and included Singapore partner Nicky Davies and Bangkok partner Somboon Kitiyansub. Bangkok banking partner Tassanai Kiratisountorn acted for Siam Commercial Bank.