But despite this enthusiasm, many of China's
wind turbine blades remain idle.
Not exact matches
The greatest coup came early last year, when Ontario announced it had negotiated an agreement with a consortium of Korean companies, including Samsung and Korea Power Electric Corp. (Details
remain mysterious, but included construction of CS
Wind's
turbine tower plant in Windsor, a
blade manufacturing facility in Tillsonburg, and two other facilities.)
Unlike horizontal axis
wind turbines (HAWTs), which maintain a steady torque if the
wind remains steady, VAWTs have two «pulses» of torque and power for each
blade, based on whether the
blade is in the upwind or downwind position.
The fuel that turns the
turbine blades is free; this means that once a
wind farm is built, the price of electricity it produces is set and
remains at that level for the entire life of the
wind farm.