PROVIDENCE – Gilbane Building Co., the firm overseeing the construction of wind turbines at a Providence wastewater treatment plant, has selected Goldwind USA to provide the three turbines for the project.
Goldwind USA, a subsidiary of China’s Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co., said on Monday it will provide three 1.5 megawatt permanent magnet direct-drive turbines, each with 82-meter rotors on 70-meter towers. The turbines’ blades will be manufactured at LM Wind Power’s Grand Forks, N.D., plant.
The turbines will be constructed at the Field’s Point Wastewater Treatment Facility; Gilbane won a $12.2 million contract to oversee the project in September from the Narragansett Bay Commission.
It is Gilbane’s first foray in to the wind business and the start of a strategy to chase similar projects around the country.
According to the Narragansett Bay Commission, the project is expected to supply between 55 percent and 60 percent of the current electrical power demand of the Field’s Point facility.
Goldwind also announced it sold two turbines to a wind project in Ohio; in total, it has sold 80 of its 1.5 megawatt permanent magnet direct-drive turbines since moving into the Americas market more than one year ago.
Goldwind did not disclose the financial details of the contract.
Great! This Chinese junk will be throwing steel blades and burning up, spreading deadly toxins over half the state.
Why don’t you save a fortune and just go house to house, executing people and their pets?