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news release: AMSC Receives
D-VAR(R) Order from Suzlon Energy for Australian Wind Farm
Westborough, MA, 6 February 2007:
American Superconductor
Corporation (NASDAQ:
AMSC), a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has
received an order from Suzlon Energy Australia Pty. Ltd. (SEA) for a Dynamic VAR
(D-VAR) system for Australia's Hallett Wind Farm. When completed, Hallett will
have 94.5 megawatts (MW) of capacity and will be one of Australia's largest wind
farms.
AMSC will deliver a D-VAR system rated at 20
megaVARs (MVAR) of reactive compensation to SEA in the second half of calendar
2007 that will be installed at a utility substation connecting AGL Energy's
Hallett Wind Farm to the national power grid. The Hallett Wind Farm will provide
zero-emission electricity for 54,000 Australian homes.
"SEA looked at several reactive compensation
solutions to comply with grid interconnection requirements and found AMSC's
D-VAR system to be an appropriate solution for our Hallett Wind Farm," said
Serel Ogten, SEA's electrical engineering manager. "D-VAR is a proven product
that offers us steady-state voltage regulation, power factor correction, and
high-voltage ride through capability - all required to comply with the local
interconnection requirements for the wind farm."
SEA is a subsidiary of Suzlon Energy A/S of
Denmark, the international business arm of Suzlon Energy Limited. SEA is
designing, procuring, constructing and commissioning the Hallett Wind Farm
project for AGL Energy Limited, Australia's largest retailer of electricity and
gas. Located on the Brown Hill Range in South Australia, it will consist of 45
wind turbines rated at 2.1 MW each. The wind farm is scheduled to come on line
by early 2008. AMSC's D-VAR systems will regulate the voltage at the Hallett
Wind Farm, thereby meeting Australia's stringent grid interconnection standards.
"AMSC is increasing market share in the wind
energy sector though its unique D-VAR and PowerModule(TM) offerings as well as
through sales for our wind turbine designs and wind turbine electrical
components with our Windtec(TM) subsidiary," said Chuck Stankiewicz, senior vice
president, AMSC Power Systems. "This new order from Suzlon demonstrates our
growing international presence and our close working relationship with the
industry's leading wind turbine manufacturers. With more than $1 billion in
annual revenues and in excess of 7,500 employees, Suzlon has rapidly built a
substantial presence in the wind energy market in the Asia-Pacific region. We
are pleased to be working on this important project and look forward to growing
our business with Suzlon."
For more information on AMSC's wind energy
solutions, see:
http://www.amsuper.com/products/applications/windEnergy/index.cfm.
About Suzlon Energy Limited
Suzlon Energy Limited. (Suzlon) is the world's
largest wind turbine generator (WTG) manufacturer in terms of market
capitalization. The Company has been ranked the 5th leading WTG manufacturer in
the world and the largest in India and Asia in terms of market share in 2005. In
India, the Company has been the market leader for eight years consecutively,
installing 53% of the capacity added in 2005. More information is available at
www.suzlon.com.
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