SANY has been quietly developing two wind farms totaling 50MW in Oregon and Texas with the help of Chinese investors, and expects they will begin producing electricity this year, a company official tells Recharge.
The project near Hermiston, Oregon, near the border with Washington State, will employ 20 SANY 2MW turbines with power to be sold under a long-term agreement with utility PacifiCorp.
Five SANY 2MW turbines will be installed near Lubbock in the Texas Panhandle with power sold on a merchant basis within the Southwest Power Pool (SPP), which operates the grid in all or parts of nine states.
In both cases, those turbines will be manufactured at plants in north Beijing. The official did not disclose the identity of the Chinese investors or the cost of the projects, which are located on private land. SANY financed part of each from its own resources.
The Chinese turbine vendor recently also commissioned a single 2MW turbine at a Philips light bulb plant in Falls River, Massachusetts. The unit will offset about 70% of the factory
Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
LRT455025 IKO | 45 | 25 | |
LRT455020 IKO | 45 | 20 |