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Hebei’s first 3.0-megawatt high-speed permanent magnet wind turbines offshore Baoding National Hi-tech Zone in the official line. Baoding Tianwei Group commitment as a national science and technology to support the project, this has a completely independent intellectual property rights, land and sea fans of the successful dual-use development, China’s large fan to accelerate the localization of equipment and offshore wind power industry has an important significance.

According to the research unit of Baoding Tianwei Wind Power Technology Co., Ltd. General Manager Liu Linhui introduction, which is a c, high salt spray, rain, thunderstorms and more operating environment, using high-speed permanent magnet synchronous generator and full power inverter design and offshore wind and large-capacity machine cooling system integration technology, the anti-corrosion, anti-salt spray, seal, desiccant application of special techniques such as design, completely solved the problem of low voltage ride-through.

Liulin Hui also said that the domestic advanced technology, larger five megawatt wind turbines are also stepping up development in the.

Baoding Development and Reform Commission deputy director, said Xu-Long Yin, wind power is in line with national industrial policy sunrise industry, with broad prospects for development. Since 2006, relying on its national high-tech zone of Baoding in the field of renewable energy equipment industry, the accumulation of long-term advantages of industrial clusters, focusing on implementation of the “China Power Valley” development strategy, has been formed photovoltaic, wind power, energy saving, energy storage, transmission six industries with the power substation automation system, new energy companies over more than 160

Vestas (China) Corporation today announced that its first batch of 49 m blade off the assembly line in Tianjin. This is said to meet China’s growing number of low-speed wind farm development and launch of the V100 platform for two-megawatt wind turbine blades, Vestas opened the two-megawatt wind turbines will result in China, a prelude to mass production.

According to the president of Vestas China, introduced Tang Male, V100 has a 49-meter-long fan blades and rotor diameter of 100 meters, at low wind speeds can capture more wind, currently only in Denmark, the United States and China integrated production base in Tianjin to produce. First off the assembly line in Tianjin blades 49 meters will be exported to South America. He said, “This table Mingwei Stas confidence in the Chinese market, while laying the integrated production base in Tianjin Vestas global strategic position.”

Recent media reports, the concept of wind power in China involving listed companies, especially wind power equipment manufacturer in 2011 for reporting the results are not ideal.

It is understood, Shenzhen and Shanghai has 40 companies involved in the concept of wind power companies, the first half of 2011, total net profit of 8.02 billion yuan, down 8.7%. Which, as wind power equipment manufacturer, Thai wins wind energy, Sinovel and Goldwind’s net profit fell 61.5%, 48.3% and 45.0%.

In addition to net income showed a dramatic decline in the collective, the wind power sector listed company’s cash flow is also worrisome. According to statistics, the 40 listed companies first half of 2011, net cash flow from operating activities -106 million, compared with $ 7.1 billion in same period in 2010 significantly reduced 177 million. Among them, jixin Technology, Shanghai Electric, Sinovel, Erik wind energy, wind energy, nearly 20 wins Thai family tradition the concept of corporate power net cash flows from operating activities fell year on year rate of more than 100%.

Two sets of data mean that China’s wind power industry began to slow, even reverse it?

Behind the decline in performance

Why wind power companies will be such a big decline in performance? In this regard, China Securities analyst Bin Zhang Financial News that the wind generators caused the first half of 2011 mainly due to decline in corporate performance fan overcapacity, trade policy restrictions and increased financing costs .

Bin Zhang explained that, in the “high-speed, high-profit” driven by the slogan of the past five years China’s wind power industry added more than 80 machine manufacturer, is expected to total production capacity will reach 2011 fans 29GW (gigawatts), far far exceeds the current 15GW to 18GW of actual demand. This makes the price war between the wind power business, which led to gradually lower the price of wind power, wind power reduces the profits of enterprises.

Second, since February 2011 small wind generators accidents, the government introduced a series of policies, not only tightened the approval of new wind power project, to suspend approval of the grid, also proposed a more rigorous and network technology, testing requirements to enter the wind power industry to improve the technical threshold. Objective of these measures in the short term wind power to market and the enterprise itself has brought some pressure.

In addition, the central bank for six consecutive times since 2011, raising the deposit reserve ratio, and our wind power business asset-liability ratio is relatively high. Bin Zhang believes that this measure has led to the wind power business interest and financing costs increased substantially, and further reduce its profit margins.

Mature in the adjustment

The face of China’s wind power business suffered during the first half of 2011, “Waterloo”, analysts have said that although the development of suspension, but this situation is precisely that domestic wind power industry is the transition from the growth to maturity, began to return to a rational development of the industry .

“Any new industry will follow the” mature bud growth recession, “the law of development, the wind power industry is also bound to comply with this law of development.” Investment adviser in the new energy industry researcher Xiao letter on the “Science Times “Reporters said.

Xiao letter believes that the current wind power companies have emerged, both good and bad, mainly through the competitive price and output to expand the market, these phenomena show that the domestic wind power industry is in a transition from the growth stage to maturity stage.

Thus, with the market development, China’s wind power business through the integration of the next step is bound to seek further development. Wind power enterprise’s core competitiveness will increasingly depend on quality, technology, branding and marketing.

Bin Zhang said that as new industries, wind power industry is to get rid of subsidies and state support of crutches, will be more reliance on market regulation forward. Although the wind power industry overcapacity, increased competition, lower prices, etc. will remain a longer period of time, but the whole industry will continue to adjustment toward a more rational, standardized, sustainable direction.

India’s Suzlon Energy company executives say, its assembly plant in Tianjin, China 2MW machine is expected to begin as early as 2012, exports to other markets.

Tanti said the company’s directors, they intend to sell its German Repower Repower’s technology into China 6MW units, and other powerful business cooperation operations.

“We only consider China’s state-owned enterprises.” Turning to partner Tanti said, “We can provide Fengji expertise, and our other partners, is responsible for problem-solving, in order for customers to achieve optimal solutions. ”

Tanti also said Suzlon will be like China, like other wind turbine suppliers, the realization of joint production, sales, operations and maintenance of fans and other businesses. “China will continue the next two decades is a huge potential market, we expect the next decade, the energy supply at least 20% will come from wind energy.

According to the World Wind Energy Association’s (WWEA) half-year report, 18.4 GW of new wind turbine installations occurred during the first half of 2011, with 43.9GW expected by the end of this year.

China, USA, Germany, Spain and India combined account for 74% of global wind capacity; with China having an overall installed capacity of around 52 GW by the end of June this year. China added 8 GW in the first 6 months of 2011, a record according to WWEA.

The US market has had a particularly strong year so far, adding 2.252 gigawatts of wind power capacity between January and June, 90% more than the same period last year.

Canada added 603 MW during the first half of 2011, with the province of Ontario the leading region due to favourable government policies.

The number of countries now using wind power has grown from 83 to 86, with Venezuela, Honduras, and Ethiopia the latest nations to be harvesting wind energy.

By the end of June, global wind capacity had reached 215 GW, representing growth of 22.9%. WWEA estimates total installed wind capacity by the end of 2011 is to reach 240.5GW, enough to provide for almost 3 % of the electricity demand all over the world.

“Although the deployment of the wind power worldwide is again speeding up, we still see relatively moderate growth rates, compared with previous years,” said Stefan Gsänger, WWEA Secretary General. “On the one hand, it is very encouraging that new countries are coming up. On the other hand, we need more support on the national as well as on the international level.”

Mr. Gsänger expects Japan to play a major role in wind power generators in the foreseeable future and may join the group of leading wind power generating countries.

an Indian power-project developer, said a wind-turbine order it placed with Dongfang Electric Corp., one of the largest overseas contracts for a Chinese supplier, has been held up by permitting issues.
“The Dongfang order couldn’t proceed yet because they have completed only two out of three mandatory tests for undertaking any global supplies,” KSK Energy said in an e-mailed response to questions about the 250-megawatt order announced last December. Dongfang expects to complete those requirements this month, it said, without specifying who stipulated the tests.
Companies like Sinovel Wind Group Co. and Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co. rank among the world’s top five turbine makers mostly because of domestic demand. As growth slows at home in the world’s largest wind market, Chinese suppliers are focusing on expanding abroad, and Dongfang’s order with KSK was “the first meaningful export contract,” CCB International Securities Ltd., a unit of China Construction Bank, said in an April report.
Dongfang, China’s third-largest maker of the wind generators equipment, announced the $203 million contract to supply 166 units of its 1.5-megawatt, direct-drive wind turbines generator to Hyderabad-based KSK Energy last year after Premier Wen Jiabao’s visit to New Delhi that generated $16 billion of deals between Indian and Chinese companies.

Water by the Xinjiang Construction Co., Ltd. invested 430 million yuan of clean energy projects – a new water Burqin 33 wind turbines on wind farms on August 9, all lifting is completed on the same day and successful network test power.
New water Burqin wind farm started in August 2010, construction in June 2011 to complete the erection of 10KV line work, and autonomous regions signed a purchase and sale of electric power contracts. The total installed capacity of wind turbines farms 49,500 kilowatts (33 × 1500 kW), a total of 33 units. Fan combination is a machine for a change of unit wiring mode, single mode and power generation. Fan blade diameter of 77 meters from the main rotor to the ground height of 65 meters.
The electric grid marks the official Burqin County of clean energy development onto a new level, it will greatly ease the Altay region Burqin even the problem of insufficient power supply, wind farm fully operational, the I can provide 120 million-degree area of ​​green energy, industrial development for the region to provide effective protection. Burqin Tianrun wind turbine generator projects put into operation can reduce the amount of coal consumption annually, with the progress but also to reduce carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other wind power generatiron harmful gases, while able to achieve an annual electricity consumption of about 60 million revenue, to provide millions of dollars for local tax revenue.

In a government-organised auction, developers of 44 wind farms in Brazil bid to deliver power to utilities at an average of BRL99.58 ($US61.93) per MWh. This was lower than the average price of BRL103.26 for contracts signed for power from two natural gas plants and BRL102 for power from a hydroelectric plant.
Brazilian construction and chemical conglomerate Odebrecht was awarded contracts for selling power from wind farms with a total capacity of 116MW at BRL99.50 ($US62.21) per MWh while Bioenergy signed the contract at BRL100.07 ($US62.55) per MWh.
These low bids were made possible by the sliding prices of wind turbines – accentuated by a stronger Brazilian currency – as well as their increased efficiencies. However there do remain some concerns about the ultimate viability of these projects. The details of Brazilian renewable energy policy – like those for many other leading countries – are tracked closely in Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Low-Carbon Policies database.
The offshore wind sector was also in the news as three companies – Centrica, Siemens and Dong – began work to sign up commercial banks for a £1 billion ($US1.7 billion) financing of their 270MW Lincs wind project off the shores of England. The companies’ decision to use a combination of their own loans and ones from commercial banks, instead of relying heavily on development bank finance, marks a first in the sector.
Renewable energy also got a leg-up in Japan. Tokyo is set to approve legislation to adopt a system of feed-in tariffs, as the country moves away from nuclear power, which contributed about a third of the power supply before the March earthquake and tsunami. The new law would make it mandatory for utilities to buy power generated from geothermal, solar and wind at the tariff rates announced.
The solar power sector, which is still digesting the news of the bankruptcy of the US module maker Evergreen Solar, suffered another setback last week when the promoters of the 1GW Blythe solar thermal plant in California – the world’s largest – decided to switch technologies and forgo the US government’s $US2.1 billion loan guarantee. Shares in Germany’s Solar Millennium – the lead promoter – slid sharply as it announced its intention to build the first 500MW of its plant using photovoltaic panels. “At the moment the wind power generator California market favours PV technology,” Christoph Wolff, chief executive officer, said in a statement, raising concerns about other solar thermal projects in the pipeline.

At 0:14 on August 18, State Power Division’s two wind power ring Chifeng Sandaogou first wind power wind turbines manufacturers project success and network debugging. The total construction project to install three more than ten 1.5MW wind turbines with a total installed capacity of nearly 50MW.

Since the construction of the project since the Chifeng wind power wind power construction company firmly grasp the seasonal and regional climate characteristics, well-organized, well-planned, inverted period, a lot of painstaking work. Chifeng company overcome many difficulties such as harsh climate and environment to develop a scientific and reasonable construction of the network, enhance on-site supervision to ensure safe building construction, for the grid to lay a solid foundation.

Sandaogou project was officially started construction in April, June, lifting the success of the first WTG August first successful wind turbine grid, which lasted for over a hundred days.

Greater than the camp, Sandaogou wind power generators projects have been successful and network, marking the State Power Department, Central Group’s wind farms entered the commercial trial operation. State Power Division of the Central Group focused on creating an official from the wind turbine equipment manufacturing industry to set the fan equipment, fan equipment, research and field experiments and operation of wind power into the overall industry, new energy industry chain has been greatly extended.

“LVRT systems are required under the standards of China’s largest power distributor, the State Grid Corp, which is in charge of power integration,” as reported by the China Daily. However, installing LVRT on a wind turbine means more expenses. It costs between 10,000 yuan ($1,538 U.S. dollars) and 500,000 yuan to upgrade a single wind turbine to be LVRT-compliant, depending on the turbine model, which would reduce profit margins for wind turbine manufacturers.

Installing this equipment may seem like an effective way to avoid future problems, but small companies that manufacture wind turbines will struggle to pay the additional costs. Anyway, does this equipment guarantee that wind turbine operators would never again experience a voltage dip that jolts the power grid? Perhaps not, as revealed by Qin Haiyon, secretary-general of the China Wind Energy Association. He told the China Daily, “the absence of LVRT systems is not the only possible reason for the system failures.”

Nevertheless, there’s still strong potential for growth for China’s wind turbines sector, especially in Gansu Province. The province is scheduled to have 10 gigawatts (gW) of installed wind capacity, compared with the 5.5gW it produced in 2010.

The People’s Daily noted that Gansu Province contains the potential for additional wind capacity of 200gW. Gansu’s wind power development has transformed into a model story in China, where 32 massive wind farms are located and the region has turned into a popular site for wind power developers in China.

According to the China Daily, “the grid in Gansu is being built out in conjunction with generation facilities. Connected wind power contributes 16% of the total power generated in Gansu, compared with a national average of 1.2%.”

Hence, China’s wind energy has been struggling with turbulence this year, but a bright outlook for the sector remains in the forecast. Every industry has dealt with ups and downs in the market, but China’s wind energy won’t get blown away by a bad turn of events so long as it adapts to changing economic and political conditions. China still needs wind farms to produce energy to meet growing domestic demand.