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Print Edition StoriesMonday, March 22, 2010
AMSC wins Chinese turbine control deal
By Mass High Tech staff
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Devens-based American Superconductor Corp. today said that it has received an order from China’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Sinovel Wind, for electrical control systems to be used with Sinovel’s 5-megawatt wind turbines.
The electrical control systems will be deployed in Sinovel’s first 5-megawatt, doubly fed induction wind turbines, jointly developed by AMSC Windtec.
Sinovel, which is China’s largest turbine manufacturer, shipped about 2,400 1.5-megawatt turbines in 2009. Those turbines also contained core electrical components from AMSC. While AMSC declined to reveal details of the contract, it did say that it has had more than $700 million worth of contracts with Sinovel.
The electrical control systems are expected to be delivered in the second half of this year. Sinovel expects to have its first 5-megawatt turbines, called the SL5000, erected within the next 12 months and to reach full production of the turbines in 2011.
Earlier this month, AMSC reported that it had landed $10 million from a Chinese company, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co. Ltd., for electrical components for 1.65-megawatt wind turbines.
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