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American Superconductor Receives Follow-on Order from Windtec for
PowerModule(TM) Systems to be Utilized in 450 Chinese Wind Turbines
Westborough, MA, October 10:
American Superconductor
Corporation (Nasdaq:AMSC),
a leading energy technologies company, announced today it has received a
follow-on order for 450 PowerModule(TM) PM1000 systems from Windtec
Systemtechnik GmbH (Windtec).
Windtec, based in Austria, is a
developer and licensor of proprietary wind turbine system designs and a
developer and supplier of wind turbine electrical systems. Windtec will package
the PowerModule systems with other electronic components for one of China's
largest domestic wind turbine manufacturers. This new order is a three-fold increase over the previous PowerModule order from Windtec, which was announced
in February 2006.
According to the Global Wind
Energy Council (GWEC), China's installed base of wind generated electricity is
expected to grow from 1,260 MW in 2005 to 2,000 MW by the end of 2006, a 59%
annual growth rate. GWEC forecasts that the installed base will more than double
to 4,750 MW over the next four years, and according to a Chinese State plan, it
will reach 20,000 to 30,000 MW in 15 years.
"AMSC and Windtec have worked closely together to customize
PM1000 systems to provide voltage regulation and electrical controls for several
Windtec wind energy system designs," said Windtec President Gerald Hehenberger.
"AMSC's PowerModule systems are best-in-class, and they provide us with
tremendous flexibility and capability in the systems we design for our
customers. Windtec looks forward to expanding its relationship with AMSC and to
capitalizing together on the rapidly growing wind power market."
The PowerModule systems will be shipped primarily in AMSC's
fiscal year ending March 31, 2008. This is the fourth order that Windtec has
placed with American Superconductor during the last 12 months and is the largest
PowerModule order in company history.
"The global wind energy market has become a significant
growth area for AMSC, and we expect this will continue for many years," said
Greg Yurek, chief executive officer and founder, American Superconductor. "Windtec
is a key channel to the Chinese market for our PowerModule systems. We expect to
continue to work closely with them to meet the objective of China and additional
fast-growing countries around the world to generate more zero-emission
electricity from wind."
With this order, American Superconductor will be serving more
than 2,500 megawatts (2.5 billion watts) of wind-generated electricity with its
D-VAR(R) and PowerModule solutions, exceeding by 25% the company's
2,000-megawatt target for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007.
PowerModule PM1000 Technology
Each wind turbine generator control system that AMSC supplies
to Windtec comprises a PowerModule PM1000 line-side converter and a PowerModule
PM1000 generator-side converter. Synchronized operation of the two units is
coordinated through high-speed Controlled Area Network (CAN) communications.
Integration of Windtec's proprietary software into the PowerModule PM1000 power
converter was achieved through AMSC's PowerModule Advanced Configuration Tools
(P-ACT(TM)). P-ACT provides an Application Programming Interface (API) that
allows engineers access to PM1000 parameters and communication objects. It also
provides a development framework to allow automatic linking of
customer code with AMSC's core software.
To learn more about AMSC's PowerModule PM1000 product line,
please visit
http://www.amsuper.com/products/powerConversion/103419060731.cfm, or contact
Mr. Perry Schugart at 800-272-2755 (international: +1-262-901-6036).
About Windtec
Windtec, founded in 1995, provides Energy for Generations(TM).
It is a developer and licensor of proprietary wind turbine system designs and a
developer and supplier of wind turbine electrical systems. Windtec is the
leading privately-owned and independent engineering company involved in
designing and developing complete electrical systems for wind turbine
applications. Its products include control, pitch and variable speed power
electronic applications. Its equipment is found in wind farms in many countries
around the globe for wind turbines up to a rating of 5 MW. For more information,
please visit www.windtec.at
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