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The U.S. companies are asking for countervailing duties equal to the difference between imported tower prices and the normal value of the product in the exporting country — 64.37 percent for Chinese towers and 59.11 percent for Vietnamese towers.
The complaint covers metal towers that hold wind turbines aloft, not the actual turbines or blades.
Thursday’s complaint [...]

China had more than 80 wind turbines makers as of 2010, capable of producing over 40 Gigawatts, yet wind equipment demand is expected to be just 15 GW a year.
And companies looking overseas to fuel their growth are met by funding bottlenecks in Europe and the United States that are likely to mean a decline [...]

China’s Guohua Energy Investment Co. has agreed to buy 75% stakes in two of Australia’s biggest wind farms for A$88.6 million, placing a bet on the country’s renewable energy sector just weeks after controversial carbon tax legislation was passed by parliament.
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Guohua, a unit of China’s state-owned coal giant Shenhua Group, is acquiring interests in [...]

In comparison to terrestrial wind parks, offshore wind energy is still developing. But bi-yearly conferences, such as the German American Offshore Conference, held October 18 in New Jersey, attract German companies to the United States for networking and showcasing their wares.
Germany’s own handful of offshore wind farms, including Alpha Ventus, opened April 2010 in the [...]

Alstom’s new ECO 122 2.7MW model is a combination of its products and large-capacity high-power technology, specifically designed for low wind speed region developed. The model for the fan speed 7.5m / s wind energy can be converted up to 42%, equivalent to 3600 hours per year full-power generation.
ECO 122 model rotor diameter of 122 [...]

Siemens has joined forces with Shangai Electric to help advance wind power technology in the world’s most populous nation.
The two companies signed a deal yesterday that will see them pool resources to jointly research, develop, and produce new technologies specifically for the Chinese wind market. The companies have worked together in the past, providing turbines [...]

- Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology , China’s second-largest maker of wind equipment, said it won a contract to supply 23 wind turbines to a wind farm project in Ecuador.
The contract represents Goldwind’s second supply deal in Ecuador and will have a combined capacity of 34.5 megawatts, said the company in a statement without giving [...]

The number of grid-connected wind farms in China reached 486 by the end of August 2011, with the total installed wind power capacity standing at more than 39.2 gigawatts, according to the Wind Power Safety Report 2011 recently released by the State Electricity Regulatory Commission.
By the end of August 2011, the installed wind power generators [...]

Wind power from the national electricity company of Shaanxi Traditional food groove came the news of two wind power projects, the project successfully and the first unit grid.
Traditional food ditch two wind power projects in Shaanxi was put into commercial operation the company’s second wind farm. The wind farm installed capacity of 49,500 kilowatts, 33 [...]