Taiwan outfit TECO Electric & Machinery has signed a framework agreement with several offshore wind power developers and an international manufacturer of permanent magnet generators in relation to plans to produce a turbine prototype.
The signing of these agreement with the unnamed partners is paving the way for TECO’s plans to contract-manufacture a locally made offshore wind turbine, with the aim of “meeting surging demand” expected after 2025.
The framework agreement includes the procurement of wind-turbine stator and rotor prototypes prior to 2025.
TECO said that after “years of effort”, it is capable of manufacturing permanent-magnet and wire-winding generators, with track record of installations, such as 2MW wind turbines at a wind farm in Inner Mongolia in 2010.
Previously, TECO has acted as a general contractor in onshore substation engineering, such as for the 900MW onshore substation engineering contract for Changfang & Xidao offshore wind farms.