Wind Turbines Manufacturer in China

Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has also stepped up its offensive in the Chinese market. Yesterday, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Yangtze River Three Gorges Project Development Corporation held a relevant technical exchanges, specifically to understand the Chinese market for the fan status of the actual needs of a variety of devices.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is Japan’s only large-scale wind turbine manufacturer. In 2007, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries authorized Ningxia wind  Power Generation Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Silver Star Energy Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Company producing its 1MW fans, now the Sun Mountain in Ningxia to run 5 Mitsubishi wind turbine.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, yesterday revealed that Mitsubishi is developing a rated output power of 5-7 MW-capacity wind turbines, the wind turbine’s rotating blades diameter of about 130 meters.

As the world energy structure dramatic change, human environmental awareness is growing. From fossil energy systems to renewable energy-based system into a sustainable new energy. Among the many new wind generator sources, at present the fastest-growing commercialization of the most extensive and economically the most appropriate course ought to wind power. To this end, Xiji County in 2008 through the introduction of Investment Moon Mountain wind power project is the introduction of our county in recent years, the major projects.

Moon mountain breeze Xiji County power plant construction plan has been completed the preparation and adoption of Development and Reform Commission review of the autonomous region, autonomous regions and Academy of Agricultural Sciences is being commissioned to conduct the EIA report preparation, and strive to complete before the end of this year development plan approval, declaration and other preparatory work for the approved , start construction early next year and put into use.

The project by the China Huadian Group’s investment in Ningxia branch building, a project in the Mountains of the Moon New 49.5 thousand kilowatts of wind turbines plant 1, and supporting the building of wind power generation equipment, erection of transmission lines, hardening into the factory roads, etc.; project construction estimate requires an investment of 483 million.

At present, the project preparatory work steadily. After the completion of the wind generators plant can take full advantage of the rich wind resources, Mountains of the Moon, the annual 104 million kwh electricity access for the county’s economic development provides ample power to protect.

Autumn in October, Lianyungang Development Zone, wind power industry, “cozy warmth.” State Power United Power Technology (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd. person in charge said, “Our company has assembled 20 sets 1.5 MW wind turbine, in which two prototype in the Group is headquartered in Baoding, Hebei, wind generators equipment manufacturing base has just passed the detection. “At this point, Lianyungang Development Zone, formed from the leaves to the wind tower, wind turbine and then to a more complete wind power industrial chain.

Lianyungang Municipal Standing Committee, the Work Committee for Tang Guohai Development Party, told reporters, “New Energy and Industrial expected annual production value of the region will exceed 30 billion yuan, becoming a new economic growth point.”

As the country’s first established “Guo Zihao” Development Zone, Lianyungang Development Zone, where economic development was slow. But in recent years, there clearly made the region the “aftermath” to achieve by leaps and bounds as the reality of “advantage” and strive to nurture and grow new energy, new materials, new medicines, new equipment manufacturing and other “four new” industry, and the preparation of the relevant special development plan. “Play to the coastal port advantage, building a complete wind turbines industrial chain” has become an important consensus region.

Development of wind power industry started in the production of wind power blades. In April 2006, the congregation re-introduction of German technology company to begin production of wind power blades, a year later grow into the nation’s largest-megawatt wind turbines blade manufacturer. At present the company’s product development for the six series of 20 leaf type, with an annual output of 3000 sets of blades of wind power capacity, the domestic market share of over 23%. Congregation is committed to re-use in complex with three years to build sets blades, towers, generators and other products R & D and sales as a whole, Asia’s largest wind power industry base.

So far in 2007, Lianyungang Development Zone continuously increasing policy support and accelerate the pace of development of wind power industry. Among them, only the construction of wind power generator industry, supporting full range of infrastructure and public service facilities on inputs of up to 20 billion yuan. Among them, South Korea’s mountains Wind Equipment (Lianyungang) Co., Ltd., Tianshun (Lianyungang) Metal Products Co., Ltd. invested 54 million U.S. dollars, respectively, 30 million U.S. dollars to build a wind power tower, Guodian 1.07 billion yuan investment in the construction of projects such as wind turbines have settled down.

For China’s wind turbines equipment manufacturing enterprise development status of China Association of Resources Comprehensive Utilization of renewable energy Zhu-sheng, director of Professional Committee of China’s wind generators equipment manufacturing industry is still in development stage, a good momentum of development, but also a lot of problems, such as the low level of enterprise management, the lack of independent intellectual property rights. “Corporate duplicate construction and on-line wind power generation is currently the biggest challenges facing the industry.”

As at the end of the year, China’s total wind power generating capacity in proportion less than 0.4%. Peng-Fei Shi stressed that the current China’s wind energy industry is not surplus, the surplus is a wind machine manufacturing enterprises.

Shi Pengfei, told reporters, “Now companies are able to produce machine 80, if each of 50 company MW manufacturing capacity to calculation, the annual production capacity is 40 million kilowatts, but China’s current market is only 10 million kilowatts of capacity. the next few years, the market annual growth up to 3000 MW of excess production capacity significantly. The installed capacity in China in recent years, growth is too fast, almost every year are growing at a rate of 100%, limiting capacity is inevitable OK. ”

Now countries have begun to strictly limit the wind energy equipment manufacturing enterprises approval and access, Shi Pengfei that this is a good thing for the industry, although some lack of competitiveness of enterprises may thus eliminated from the market.

“Now everyone is concerned about the capacity problem, because production has gone up, the market has shifted from a seller’s buyer’s market, and now the focus of power enterprises, focus on product quality.”

“This is tantamount to Jiugei higher demands put forward by enterprises, companies begin to adapt to a certain area of the wind conditions, depending on the environment has to adjust their own products, rather than copy the European product standards, the original mode of production is already facing difficulties . ”

To be able to survive this round of competition in the enterprise, Peng-Fei Shi told reporters, “That is the real strength of the conservative estimate of only a small part of survival. This contradiction is resolved, China’s wind power equipment manufacturing industry in order to embark on the sound development of the road. ”

In the equipment manufacturing business survival and development issues, the Peng-Fei Shi also suggested that strong enterprises should focus on the international. “At the internal capacity of a substantial increase in the short term can not be the case, companies going out on the one hand can release capacity on the other hand can also invest in mergers and acquisitions by foreign advanced technology.”

American Wind Energy Association, the latest data show that the third quarter of 2009, the U.S. added 1.649 million kilowatts of wind turbines installed capacity, which makes this year’s total of new capacity of more than 5.8 million kilowatts.

Investment Advisor in the latest release of “2009-2012 China Wind Power Equipment Industry Analysis and Forecast of Investment Report” shows the first half of 2009 the United States new wind turbines installed capacity of ultra-four million kilowatts in the first quarter the U.S. added wind power installed capacity of 2.836 million kilowatts.

Investment Advisor in the energy industry chief researcher Jiang Qian pointed out that this new wind generators installed capacity of more than 5.8 million kilowatts, along with cut-off by the end of 2008 the United States already 25.17 million kilowatts of wind power installed capacity, that cut-off in 2009 by the end of September, the U.S. wind power installed capacity has exceeded 30 million kilowatts.

Jiang Qian pointed out that the United States Barack Obama repeatedly after administration introduced new policies to support wind power generator and other new energy industries. For example, February 17, 2009 Obama signed the “2009 U.S. recovery and re-investment Act” to the current challenging economic situation, through the next two years, the tax cuts, as well as for energy, health care, infrastructure and education in key areas such as hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, as soon as possible to create many job opportunities. Soon after, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to revive and re-investment Act to provide 93 million U.S. dollars to support wind power development. These are rapidly expanding U.S. wind power industry, a major driving force.

Jiang Qian also expects 2009 should only be a transitional period is expected that with the gradual improvement in the U.S. economy next year, coupled with a new energy policy is now gradually pulling effect, the U.S. wind power industry will still maintain a relatively fast pace of development.

While the investment consultancy, research director Zhang Yan-lin, pointed out that since the financial crisis, including China, the global emerging markets for new energy industries, increasing emphasis, while the new energy development as a traditional great power, the United States of course, unwilling to lag behind in this regard other countries, this is Obama’s new energy industry, the Government will rise to an unprecedented high level of the main reasons. In addition, the growing number of countries involved inwindmill the process of promotion of new energy to not only the development of the industry will play a tremendous role in promoting, but also an effective global response to climate change will play an important role.

Current energy heavily subsidized by the government, if it is committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, by 2020 20% of the wind  energy will come from renewable energy sources, in line with the European climate change objectives.

However, the Siemens division chief executive, Rene Umlauft that natural gas and other fossil fuel prices make wind farm eight years in the business is viable.

Subsidies for wind generators in New Zealand has also not working well, the weather conditions, making the efficiency of windmills than rest of the world. In Mexico and Brazil, the wind is also strong enough to make wind power generation in these countries a profit in the coming year.

Onshore and offshore wind are leaders among eight clean energy sectors expected to significantly help the world decarbonise by 2050.

The steady success of wind power was the encouraging message coming out of a report released last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where bankers, politicians, educators, energy officials, labour leaders, environmentalists and others gathered to discuss humankind’s complex problems.

The report, Green Investing: Towards  china wind turbines a Clean Energy Infrastructure, rated onshore and offshore wind as number one and number two respectively on the list of large-scale clean power sectors expected to provide a meaningful contribution to the world’s energy mix by mid-century.

The two wind sectors were followed by solar photovoltaic in third place; then solar thermal electricity generation; municipal solar waste-to-energy; sugar-based ethanol; cellulosic and next generation biofuels and geothermal power.

By including wind power generators at the top of the “emerging shape of the new low-carbon infrastructure,” the WEF report emphatically supports what the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has been saying for years.

Coincidentally, the timing of the report came as EWEA was finalising annual statistics that showed, for the first time ever, that more wind generators was installed in the EU than any other generating technology in 2008.

EWEA also reported that there was a total of 64,949 MW of installed wind power capacity in the EU-27 at the end of 2008, of which 19,651 were new additions. Out of that, 8,484 MW (43%) was windmill; 6,932 MW (35%) gas; 2,495 MW (13%) oil; 762 MW (4%) coal, and 473 MW (2%) hydro power.

Noting that necessary investments in wind power, other renewables and energy efficient technologies have already begun, the WEF report said the $33 billion US spent on the power sectors in 2004 had increased to $148 billion US by the end of 2007.

But the report added that at least $515 billion US needs to be invested globally in green energy sectors each year from now until 2030 if global temperature rises are to be kept to 2 degrees Celsius, the level considered manageable by scientists concerned about greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

“Investors and policy makers are facing a historic choice,” the report said. “At the very time when commentators are branding green investing as a luxury the world cannot afford, enormous investment in the world’s energy infrastructure is required in order to address the twin threats of energy insecurity and climate change. Waiting for economic recovery, rather than taking decisive action now, will make the future challenge far greater.”

Again, the WEF message reiterates EWEA’s position that EU-27 politicians should use the deepening financial crisis to re-invest in a new green energy revolution that provides a dependable supply of non-polluting wind power to a growing population while also mitigating some of the worst affects of global warming associated with rising CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.

“The need to shift to a low-carbon economy is stronger than ever,” the report concludes, adding that clean energy technologies are becoming increasingly cost-effective with traditional, polluting fossil fuels. “A carbon price will eventually level the playing field but in the meantime, clean energy solutions require support from policy makers.”

Coal, oil and natural gas development and utilization of the famous Yulin City, intends to wind energy, solar energy development into the construction areas. Reporter yesterday from the provincial Environmental Protection Department that, after two years of hard work, Yulin state energy and chemical base “wind turbines, solar energy resources analysis and evaluation report” has been completed, including for developing wind energy, solar energy resources come to a useful monitoring and evaluation findings Yulin City and has made recommendations related to the development.

Monitoring and analysis show that, Yulin city of wind energy, solar energy resource development and utilization has unique conditions for it. Here the effective time of the wind appears more along the Great Wall north of the annual effective wind hours typically greater than 6,000 hours, even up to 7500 hours; wind stability, wind generators field of high quality, small chance of damaging winds occur; land area of broad, flat, convenient transportation, engineering, conditions are good; power good conditions are conducive to wind power outward transport; the surface, mostly desert, grassland, or degradation of pastures, wind power development on the environment less affected. Yulin City of solar radiation over 5500-6000 megajoules per square meter, the annual average sunshine time 2620-2830 hours, is one of the national solar energy resource-rich region, and an increasing trend in recent years, development and utilization potential.

Siemens Energy has been awarded six wind turbine contracts during the past months worth more than $900 million.

Siemens Energy, the Orlando-based U.S. wind power generation division of Siemens AG, will deliver part of the orders. It will make 66 wind turbines for Competitive Power Ventures for an Oklahoma wind farm; 44 turbines for Duke Energy to be deployed in Wyoming; 26 turbines for Cannon Power Group in Washington State; and 44 turbines for Pattern Energy to be installed in California.

Part of the order will be filled in Canada for Canadian projects.

Siemens has been in the wind-generation market since 2004. It is building a turbine assembly plant in Hutchison, Kan., that will open in the fall of 2010 and employ 400 workers. It also recently expanded a blade manufacturing plant in Iowa that opened in 2007.

A day after the federal government awarded $500 million to renewable-energy projects, the American Wind Energy Association is pointing to a study that concludes that the investments will lead to “green collar jobs” as intended. The U.S. Treasury and Energy departments on Tuesday said that 12 renewable-energy projects, 10 of them in wind, were awarded cash grants, a move meant to bring financiers back to the U.S. wind industry and create manufacturing and construction jobs.

Home on the plain: Wind turbines. (Credit: GE On Wednesday, the AWEA said that a new study shows that the government stimulus on wind is money well-spent when it comes to job creation. Specifically, the industry association backed an analysis from the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory that debunks a previous study which found that Spain’s wind and solar policies actually resulted in fewer jobs. That previous study dates back to March when researchers at Spain’s King Juan Carlos University concluded that for every job created by Spain’s aggressive renewable-energy policy, on average 2.2 jobs will be “destroyed.” The study (click for PDF in English) has been cited by people opposed to using Spain as a model for U.S. energy policy. The reasoning behind the analysis is that nonsubsidized investments would have created jobs at a lower cost. It calculates that a “green job” in Spain costs over twice the “average capital per worker” in the private sector. The analysis of Spanish job creation doesn’t quite add up, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s response which was published in August.

(Click for PDF.) NREL found fault with how the King Juan Carlos University study calculated job loss, saying that more established methods found a net benefit to Europe’s energy policies. In addition, NREL researchers said that the Spanish study doesn’t take into the account the value of creating industries with export potential. Many industrial areas of the U.S. with auto expertise, for example, are trying to move into wind turbine manufacturing. It also said that there are limits to applying the lessons of Spain’s employment market to other countries. But even in its rebuttal, NREL researchers concede that it’s a fair to ask whether the net effect of boosting wind generators and solar power is more jobs. In the U.S., the Senate is considering whether to create a national mandate for renewable-energy production at utilities or to ratchet up the one passed by the House earlier this year.

Overall, NREL found that the price of conventional energy is the key point in determining whether government policies supporting renewable energy have a net positive effect on creating jobs. “With increased awareness of potential energy price scenarios, recent research has found that it is only when conventional energy prices are forecast to be very low that net employment impacts from (renewable energy) investments are negative,” according to the study.