A-Power wins 19.5MW China wind farm contract

15 October 2009

Chinese distributed power supplier A-Power has won a full-responsibility contract to develop a 19.5MW wind farm in Donggang, Rizhao City of Shandong Province, in Eastern China, for the Shandong subsidiary of Datang International Power Generation. The total value of the contract is $36.2m.

The company is to supply wind turbines, towers and foundations and will oversee the construction, subcontracting and installation of the project. The estimated cost is $33.7m for equipment procurement, $1.9m for construction and installation, and $0.5m for miscellaneous expenses. The project is due to commence November this year, with completion estimated in November 2010.

The Rizhao Donggang Wind Farm project owned by Rizhao City Hengyuan Wind Power has an initial requirement of eight units of the 2.5 to 2.7MW wind turbines and it is expandable to 100MW. The project has been approved by the provincial Development and Reform Commission and the National Resources Bureau of Shandong Province, and the permit for transmission to the electricity power grid has been issued by the Shandong Electricity.

Jinxiang Lu, chairman and CEO of A-Power, said, ‘We are proud to announce our second wind farm full-responsibility project after our Inner Mongolia project announcement in September. To be able to work with Datang Power, which is China’s second largest state-owned power producer, speaks volume about our growing expertise in wind farm equipment supply, construction and engineering. We have already assembled teams for construction, installation and testing for the Rizhao Donggang project and will start on it early next month.’

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