Vestas vende 75 megavatios a China

El gobierno chino da prioridad a sus empresas nacionales, frente a las multinacionales instaladas en China, a veces con procedimientos arbitrarios y que pueden volverse en su contra en otras latitudes. En este contexto de creciente nacionalismo eólico, Vestas es una de las empresas que mejor aguanta la ola nacionalista.

China va camino de convertirse en una gran potencia eólica, y para ello basta contemplar la evolución de la potencia eólica instalada:

Año 2000: apenas 346 MW.
2001: 402 MW.
2002: 469 MW.
2003: 567 MW.
2004: 764 MW
2005: 1.260 MW.
2006: 2.604 MW.
2007: 5.912 MW.
2008: 12.210 MW
2009: 20.000 MW (previsto).
2010: 30.000 MW (previsto)
2020: 150.000 MW (previsto)

Numeros empresas internacionales tienen fábricas en China, como la danesa Vestas o las alemanasSiemens y Enercon, o las españolas Gamesa y Acciona, pero también hay potentes empresas nacionales, como Goldwind de la provincia de Xinjiang. China tiene un enorme potencial eólico. El proteccionismo dificulta la implantación de empresas extranjeras, incluidas las españolas Gamesa y Acciona.

China implantó la Ley de Energías Renovables en el año 2006 como parte del plan para mejorar sus registros medioambientales. Lo que más necesita en estos momentos es la tecnología para hacer efectiva su determinación de construir un modelo económico limpio y ecológico.

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Vestas to supply 75 MW of wind turbines to China 

Vestas will supply a total of 75 MW of wind turbines to a large Chinese Independent Power Producer (IPP).

The first order consists of 7 units of the V90 1.8 MW wind turbine and 6 units of the V90 2.0 MW wind turbine for a wind energy project in the Shandong province, China.

The second order is for 25 units of the V80 2.0 MW wind turbine for a project in the Guangdong province.

The contracts include delivery, installation and commissioning of the wind turbines, a VestasOnline® Business SCADA solution and a two-year service and maintenance agreement.

Industry Analysts Warn China Is Winning Clean Energy Race

At a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday, lawmakers heard testimony from leading energy analysts that China is "winning" the race to develop clean energy.

"China understands that controlling its energy future is fundamental," testified John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. "Its commitments to develop and own clean energy technologies and markets are breathtaking."

According to Doerr, China’s cars are "more than one-third more fuel efficient than US cars." Additionally, China is "investing ten times more than the US on clean power as a percentage of GDP."

He called China’s growth in renewable energy supplies "astonishing," and said that, in wind alone, "China’s capacity has doubled in each of the past four years, and China is expected to become the world’s largest wind manufacturer this year."

"As a result" Doerr added, "China is already curbing emissions substantially. This year alone, it will abate almost 350 Million Tons of CO2e compared to business as usual—which is as much as the country of Argentina emits in the course of a year."

Julian Wong, senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, echoed Doerr’s sentiment.

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