Here is an interesting article below detailing the current 2008 wind players inside China. With China going to spend hundreds of billions over the next 10 years, the list below will change and some will profit and some will prosper as the Peoples Republic of China dishes out bucketloads of cash for green wind power.

APWR must deliver wind turbines to climb in this list. IF my research prevails and IF APWR delivers, the APWR/Shenyang Power Alliance could become one of the largest four players inside China by 2012.

Sinovel is #1 an followed closely by Dongfang and Goldwind. When you compare how many wind turbines these companies can mass produce at full throttle and 100% capacity, well, there is plenty of room for APWR down the road. As long as the Chinese government maintains protectionism of 70% for Chinese comapanies for these hundreds of billions of green China power money, APWR will benefit handsomely in 2011 and 2012.

The author of the below story got the names wrong, ie Suzlon is Indian company and does 2% of China wind……Sinovel is #1 and misprinted by the author

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Dongfang Electric Corporation (Chengdu, Sichuan) has signed a contract with Huaneng New Energy Holding Company Limited (Beijing), a subsidiary of the China Huaneng Group (Beijing), to supply wind turbines that will generate 297-MW in six wind power projects in Inner Mongolia.

The $279 million contract follows another large contract worth $643 million that was signed in May.

Despite experiencing major losses after the magnitude-8 earthquake in the Sichuan area earlier this year, Dongfang Electric’s wind power business maintained steady development throughout the year. The company has completed three wind power manufacture bases aimed at improving the localization rate in the manufacture of wind power equipment as well as revenues.

The bases are in Deyang in southwestern China, Tianjin in northern China and Xiaoshan in eastern China. The bases cover a broad range of products, including double-feedback, direct-driven and semi-direct-driven series. The company has begun production of independently developed 1.5-MW wind turbines in Deyang and 2.5-MW wind turbines in Tianjin.

Dongfang Electric expects to have manufactured 800 wind turbine sets by year’s end, compared with just 208 in 2007, to become China’s largest wind power equipment supplier.

The installed capacity of wind power across China is expected to reach 15-GW in 2010. According to the National Development and Reform Commission, newly added wind power in the country will largely be made up of units with capacities of 1.5-MW, 2-MW or higher; therefore, enterprises capable of producing large wind turbines will become major competitors in the market.

So far, Dongfang Electric has more than $2.9 billion of wind turbine orders in hand with another about $1.45 billion set to be signed. The company expects to manufacture 1,200 sets of wind turbines in 2009.

China’s Wind Market Share
Suzlon – 21% ((should be Sinovel))
Goldinw – 17% ((should be Goldwind))
Dongfang – 17%
Vestas – 11%
Gamesa – 8%
Windey – 4% ((dont know this one)
Mingyan – 3%
GE – 3% (((you can SEE why GE chose to “”PARTNER”" with APWR))
Nordex 2%
Suzlong – 2% ((should be Suzlon))
Acciona – 2%
Others – 10% (Iberdrola, Endesa, etc etc)