Bidders eager for wind project

Abu Dhabi: Denmark's Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Terna Energy SA of Greece are among 13 companies bidding to build Syria's first privately owned wind farm amid political turmoil in the Arab nation, a consultant on the project said.

"No bidder has shown a desire to withdraw from the project due to the current unrest in the country," Richard Kupisz, an associate director at London-based consulting firm IPA Energy & Water Economics, said in a telephone interview from Abu Dhabi.

"On the contrary, one of the non-qualified bidders is still trying to be short-listed with the others," he said, without disclosing the bidder's identity.

Syria's electricity ministry chose IPA to help evaluate bidders for the work.