Dongfang to supply direct-drive for Yihe project 150MW second phase

CHINA: Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) will supply 2.5MW turbines to the second phase of Shenzhen Energy Group's Inner Mongolia project. Its 1.5MW turbines power the first phase.

by Yang Jianxiang 26 January 2016

Dongfang's 2.5MW direct-drive turbine will be installed at the 150MW project in Inner Mongolia

DEC will supply 60 2.5MW direct-drive turbines to the second-phase of the Yihe wind farm in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia.

The Yihe wind farm is developed by the Beijing-headquartered Shenzhen Energy North Holdings, a subsidiary of the Shenzhen Energy Group, a listed utility based in south China's Shenzhen.

In 2010, DEC supplied 100 1.5MW turbines to the first-phase Yihe wind project.

DEC was the fourth largest wind supplier on the domestic market by the end of 2014, having installed a cumulative total of 9.27GW of wind turbines, representing a 8.09% share of the China market, according to Chinese Wind Energy Association statistics.

CWEA's preliminary figures indicate DEC ranked eighth in new installations for 2015, delivering between 1GW and 2.2GW.