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Vermont wind farms gets four Chinese 2.5-MW turbines

By Steven Bushong | August 15, 2012

A Chinese company recently signed a deal with All Earth Renewables in Vermont to supply the Georgia Mountain wind farm with four of its 2.5MW turbines, marking the first all-2.5 MW project for the company in the Americas. While the company, Goldwind, installed three 2.5-MW demonstration turbines at its Shady Oaks project in Illinois, the Georgia Mountain project is the first to have the company’s most advanced permanent magnet direct drive turbine in the Americas. Construction is planned for this year, and will supply energy to 4,200 Vermont households when complete.

A diagram of a 2.5-MW PMDD turbine.

A diagram of a 2.5-MW PMDD turbine.

The 2.5-MW turbine’s scale reduces capital and operational expenditure on a per-kWh basis, reduces the parts-count per kW of capacity relative to geared machines, and continues to drive down the kWh cost of renewable energy with its unsurpassed reliability, Goldwind says.

As perhaps the most encouraging development for Goldwind in the United States, the Georgia Mountain deal is the most recent example of several Goldwind projects in the United States that were financed domestically – further signaling bankability in the US market, the company says. The Georgia Mountain project will be financed by Merchant’s Bank in Vermont.

Goldwind
www.goldwindglobal.com


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Comments

  1. Scott J Bkackwell says

    August 18, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    I believe you information is wrong. The Caithness project which just completed has 335 2.75MW machines and 3 2.5MW machines producing 835 MW is not only the largest but only 2.75 MW machines in the USA.

    • Paul Dvorak says

      August 19, 2012 at 8:04 pm

      Thanks for the notice, Scott. I’ll check the press release.

      Paul

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