Suzlon bags two wind orders from China

NEW DELHI, April 18 (UPI) -- India's private Suzlon Energy Ltd. says it bagged two orders from China to generate 200 megawatts of wind power.

Suzlon in a communication told the Bombay Stock Exchange that Suzlon Energy (Tianjin) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, secured orders totaling nearly 200 MW of capacity for wind-farm projects in China.

Under the first order, which Suzlon got from Ao Lu Jia New Energy Development Ltd., it has to ship the delivery of 148.5 MW of wind turbine capacity through 99 units of the S82-1.5 MW turbines for use in three wind farms. Deliveries for the first wind farm are scheduled for shipment during the second quarter of financial year 2008-09, the company said in the communication.

A senior official of the company wrote that the second order from Beifang Longyuan (North Union) calls for the delivery of 50 MW of wind turbine capacity through 40 units of the S64-1.25 MW turbines, scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of financial year 2009-10.