American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) has announced that it has received an initial order for full wind turbine electrical control systems from Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Group Co., Ltd. (Sinovel).?
The systems will be deployed in Sinovel’s first 5MW doubly fed induction
wind turbines.?AMSC expects to deliver the electrical control systems
to Sinovel in the second half of calendar year 2010.?Sinovel expects to
have its first 5MW wind turbines (branded the SL5000) erected within the
next 12 months and to commence full production of the wind turbines in
2011.
