In April this year, Goldwind installed and connected two 1.5MW high-altitude prototypes at a pilot wind farm in Xitieshan, northwest China’s Qinghai province.
According to Goldwind, the grid-access testing result shows the turbines maintained 98.5% availability.
It said one turbine may generate 2.8 million kwh electricity a year, when wind blows 6.5 meters/second and the air density meets 0.88kg/cubic meters on average annually.
Goldwind produces bespoke high-altitude wind turbines for southwest and northwest Chinese high altitude areas, which have yet to see significant wind energy development.
