Goldwind USA, a Chicago-based, fully owned auxiliary company of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology, declared that it has chosen Broadwind Energy, a producer of multi-megawatt wind turbines, to provide around 70 wind turbine towers required for its Lee County, Illinois, located Shady Oaks wind power project. The wind tower installations are set to commence in the second half of the year 2011.
According to Tim Rosenzweig, Goldwind USA’s chief executive officer, while closeness to the project location and the capability to create openings for the local wind industry played a reasonable role in the choice of Broadwind Energy, the important elements such as its established manufacturing record for such volume production enabled the company to choose Broadwind for the project as its tower partner.
Broadwind happened to be the first company to produce turbine towers of 100 meter height. It utilizes its indigenous steel fabrication technology to manufacture tall turbine towers to access maximum wind energy. The company has so far produced around 800 wind turbine towers.