American Superconductor Corporation, a universal power technologies company, announced that it has received an initial order for full wind turbine electrical control systems worth more than US$20 mn from Ghodawat Energy Pvt. Ltd. (GEPL). Under the provisions of the contract, AMSC will begin shipping the electrical control systems to Ghodawat in the middle of calendar 2010 and will complete all shipments by the end of calendar 2013 at the latest. Ghodawat is the sixth customer to place a volume production order for wind turbine power electronic components or systems with AMSC over the past 12 months.
Pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and energy independence are growing, global concerns that are helping to drive the agreement of clean, renewable power, said Shrenik Ghodawat, Managing Director of GEPL. We are now beginning the production of wind turbines in India that are at the leading edge of technology to help meet this critical need. Our goal is to achieve 25 percent market share in India's wind power market while also building our business in foreign markets.
AMSC's wind turbine electrical control systems and core electrical components include the company's proprietary PowerModuleT power converters, hurl and yaw converters, SCADA systems and other power electronics. They enable consistent, high-performance wind turbine operation by controlling power flows, regulating voltage, monitoring system performance, controlling the pitch of wind turbine blades and the yaw of the turbines to maximize efficiency.
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