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Beijing plans to phase out subsidies for wind turbine makers by 2020 or 2022.

Long-term Vestas’ customer, China Datang Corporation Renewable Power Cohe Ltd, has placed a new wind order for 45 V110-2.0 MW turbines. The firm and unconditional order is for the Shandianhe project in Guyuan County of northern China’s Hebei Province. It includes supply of the turbines, delivered with Power Optimized Mode of 2.2 MW, and supervision of the…

While the country looks on track to becoming a self-sufficient, clean energy superpower, there are some important issues it needs to tackle in order to rise to the challenge.

Maxwell Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor-based energy storage and power delivery products, announced that its ultracapacitors have been selected by Beijing Huadian Tianren Electric Power Control Technology, a subsidiary of China Guodian Corporation. One of the five largest power producers in the country, China Guodian Corporation’s system is building the first megawatt-scale, ultracapacitor-based…

n its “State of Affairs 2015” report, Agora forecasts record low wholesale electricity prices continuing into 2018 at least.

Gamesa has received two new orders in China for the supply of a total of 98 MW to two developments. The first order, placed by renewable energy player Concord New Energy (CNE), encompasses the supply and installation of 24 G90-2.0 MW turbines (48 MW) for the Cangfang wind farm being built in county Huize, which is…

Spinning high off the shores of Jiangsu and Fujian provinces in China stand the avant garde of China’s renewable energy future: wind farms that will enable the country to reach an installed wind-power capacity of 200 GW by the end of 2020*. Outpacing the Chinese government’s own projections, the rapid growth speaks of the immense…

Long-term Vestas customer Hanas Group has placed an order for 25 V110-2.0 MW turbines for a wind park in Western China. Turbine delivery and commissioning are expected in the second half of 2016. The order for the Wanglejing Sunjialou Wind Farm in western China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region includes a two-year Active Output Management (AOM)…

Increased cash flow among Chinese turbine OEMs has resulted in higher levels of R&D investment. The result is that the quality of innovations is improving, along with the competitiveness of products and service offerings.

Editor’s note: This blog posting on wind-energy efficiency is written by The Switch’s Corporate Business Development Director, Carlo Cecchi. The Switch is a supplier of megawatt-scale electrical drives for wind energy, including permanent-magnet generators. Propelled by a strong gust of subsidies, the Chinese wind-power industry accounts for half of the global wind power market. Yet it remains…

This article is reposted from a GE newsletter 2014 was a record year for the wind industry, with annual installations crossing the 50 GW mark for the first time. It was also the first year that Asia overtook Europe as the region with the most deployed wind capacity. Much of this was driven by the phenomenal growth of the…

Cumulative installed capacity for renewables, excluding hydropower, in China will more than triple from 196.3 GW in 2015 to an estimated 608.9 GW by 2025, representing a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 12%, driven primarily by ambitious government targets for onshore wind, according to research and consulting firm GlobalData. The report, titled:  China Power Market…

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Turbine OEM Gamesa has had its G97-2.0 MW turbine certified by a Chinese certification entity authorized by China’s National Energy Administration (NEA). The G97-2.0 MW is a benchmark turbine in the Chinese market, where over 150 units have been installed since 2011. Moreover, so far this year, Gamesa has secured orders for the supply of…

Renewable energy consultancy, SgurrEnergy, has been appointed by Huaneng Renewables, a Chinese-based renewable energy company and one of the top utility companies in China, to undertake technical offshore wind energy research assessing the general site conditions of offshore wind projects in China. The new research will be conducted in partnership with Beijing-based Tsinghua University. The…

GE announced that it will build a new wind education center in Shenyang, China. The approximately 500-square-meter facility will be built on the same campus as GE’s current manufacturing operation in Shenyang. Located in the largest city of Liaoning Province, the new education center will offer a variety of training courses intended for GE field…

China continued to deploy wind power at a remarkable rate, installing an estimated 23.3 gigawatts (GW) in 2014, a 45% increase over 2013. China accounted for 45% of the 51 GW installed globally in 2014, representing $94.6 billion in revenue. This is the most wind ever installed by a single country in a single year,…

Vestas has secured an order for 24 V100-2.0 MW turbines in China, its third announced order in the country this year. The order has been placed by long-time Vestas customer CGN (Anxi) Wind Power Co. Ltd. CGN (Anxi) Wind Power currently has Vestas wind turbines totalling 960 MW installed in China.The CGN Fujian Anxi Longmen…

China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited announced that its Super Compact Drive (SCD) offshore wind turbine prototype, with a 6.5-megawatt (MW) platform, began trial operation in March. The SCD prototype can be expanded and developed to a series of wind turbine generators (WTGs), with capacity ranging from 5.0 MW to 7.0 MW. The commercial…

Bloomberg predicts that operations and maintenance work on China’s huge and growing fleet of wind farms is on course to be a $3 billion/year market by 2022 China is the world’s largest wind market with more than 100 GW of wind capacity, equivalent to about 65,000 turbines, and is currently adding more than 30 new…