The wind turbines will be produced in HHI's Gunsan wind turbine factory and installed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by May 2010. The rotor diameter is 77m and hub height is 80m. The six wind turbines will generate 10MW electricity, enough for 5,000 households.
HHI has invested 105.7 billion won to build a 600MW capacity wind turbine manufacturing plant in Gunsan. The plant, covering 132,000 square meters, will be capable of producing 1.65MW-class wind turbines. HHI plans to expand the capacity to 800MW by 2013.
HHI plans to export most of the wind turbines produced in this factory to the United States and Europe. HHI produced its first generator for wind turbines in 1988 and has exported in-house developed transformers and converters for wind power plants to the US and European countries.
The company cites renewable energy businesses such photovoltaic systems and wind turbines as its growth engine for next generation.
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Amy Fischbach
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Amy Fischbach is the field editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission & Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].