China Ming Yang Wind Power Group Limited, a wind turbine manufacturer in China, today announced that its first 6.5 MW prototype super compact drive ("SCD") wind turbine generator has been successfully completed in June 2013, and installation and testing are expected to commence in the third quarter of 2013.
The 6.5 MW SCD prototype utilizes Ming Yang's two-bladed SCD technology. It is designed mainly for off-shore operation, and Ming Yang believes that this SCD WTG prototype currently has the largest design capacity of its kind in the world.
"We are very proud to complete our 6.5MW SCD prototype design and production within our time and budget schedules," commented Mr. Chuanwei Zhang, chairman and chief executive officer of Ming Yang. "We believe that the 6.5MW design would enable us to offer a solution that helps to further lower the cost of off-shore wind power generation in China to a new level."
Now, if they build 100 of these behemoths offshore, they will equal the capacity of the smallest nuclear plant in the US, which went online 40 years ago.