List of wind turbine manufacturers
The manufacturers of large wind turbines for electricity generation are structured very differently. For many years only medium-sized companies were active in this sector, but since the second half of the 1990s large corporations have also emerged or become active. The largest manufacturer on the world market is Vestas with a market share of 11.6% in 2014. A market shakeout has been taking place since the beginning of the 21st century . Smaller manufacturers and component suppliers were either bought up or pushed out of the market.
Active manufacturers
Argentina
Belgium
Brazil
- WAY Equipamentos Elétricos - Aerogeneradores
China
- A-Power
- Avantis
- BZD
- CAAC Wanyuan
- CRRC wind turbine (merger of CSR and CNR)
- CS Wind Power (Sheng guo)
- CWPC
- CSIC -HZ Wind Power
- Dongfang Electric Corp. (DEC)
- Envision
- Geoho
- Gold wind
- Hewind ( HEAG )
- Jingcheng Renewable (JCNE)
- Mingyang ( Mingyang Wind Power )
- Nanjing Wind Power
- Ningxia Yinxing
- Sany , construction machinery group with wind turbine division
- Sinovel
- Sewind ( Shanghai Electric )
- Shandong Swiss Electric
- Shanghai Electric
- Tianwei
- Taiyuan Heavy
- United Power ( Guodian United Power )
- XEMC Darwind
- Xuji wind
- Zhejiang WINDEY
Denmark
-
Siemens wind energy (production in Denmark)
- merged:
- ex Danregn Vindkraft A / S and AN Bonus Energy A / S
- Vestas - largest manufacturer on the world market (2010)
- MHI Vestas Offshore - Offshore Joint Venture
Germany
- AIRCON - manufacturer of smaller wind turbines, merged into Lely Aircon in 2012
- aerodyn Engineering 2-blade systems (supplies wind turbines for the Japanese NEDO project)
- Amperax
- Avantis
- Enercon - gearless systems, market leader in Germany in 2010 with 59.2% of all installed systems
- eno energy GmbH
- FWT energy GmbH (now Förde WindWerke GmbH & Co. KG)
- General Electric (USA, Germany) as part of GE Renewable Energy (France) - production partly in Germany
- Lely Aircon - Until 2012 still AIRCON, wind power division was given up by Lely BV
- Nordex SE - merger with Acciona 2016
- Nordwind Energieanlagen (insolvent, liquidated in 2016)
- Qreon
- PowerWind, insolvent 2011, now Indian
- Prokon - development and production taken over by Amperax .
- Schuler (2012 Schuler AG sells wind business)
- Contactor
- Senvion , until December 2013 REpower Systems , insolvency 2019, service business taken over from Siemens Gamesa
- Siemens Gamesa , in Denmark production, in Germany service and sales
- Vensys - licensor and manufacturer of gearless systems, taken over by Goldwind
- Wind Technik Nord (WTN) - development, manufacture and production of wind turbines
Estonia
- Elean
Finland
- Mervento , (2017 insolvent, factories bought by Eleon) only pilot systems, licensing program for gearless systems, imminent bankruptcy was reported in 2015
- WinWind , (2014 insolvent) 3MW onshore / offshore plants, plants in Finland and India, drive train is the same as Areva M5000, new investor in 2014
France
- Bless Eolias
- Alstom subsidiary of GE based in France and Spain
India
- InoxWind
- ReGen Powertech
- Para Enterprises Pvt Ltd Pioneer Wincon
- Suzlon
- Wind World India Ltd. formerly Enercon India (independent, i.e. no longer part of the German Enercon Group, see Enercon # litigation with Enercon India Ltd. )
- WinWinD
Ireland
- C&F Green Energy
Italy
- Aeritalia - manufacturer of two-winged aircraft
- Enessere - manufacturer of small design wind turbines
- LEITWIND - manufacturer of gearless systems with permanently excited generator
Japan
- Hitachi - acquired Subaru's wind turbine business in 2012
- Japan Steel Works (JSW)
- Komai - Komaihaltec
- MHI Vestas (Denmark, Japan)
Korea
- Han Jin Ind. Co. - plants in the power range 0.1 and 2.0 MW
- Hyosung
- Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) - starts producing 2.5 MW turbines in 2010
- Hyundai
- STX Heavy Industries
- UNISON - today's owner Toshiba
New Zealand
Netherlands
- Lagerwey Wind
- STX Windpower (Korea, Netherlands), goes back to Harakosan
- XEMC Darwind (Netherlands, China)
- EWT
- 2-B Energy
Austria
- Alpswind - project developer who offers wind turbines with wooden towers and multi-segmented rotor blades
Spain
- Acciona - merger with Nordex in 2015
- Gamesa - merger with Siemens Wind Power 2016
- United Energies MTOI investor Swiss Energy AG has taken over MTorres Wind
- Norvento - 100kW turbine
- Siemens Gamesa - Merger of Siemens Wind Power and Gamesa
Turkey
Ukraine
United States
- AMSC
- General Electric (Germany, France, USA)
- Northern Power Systems (USA, Canada) - Licensor
Manufacturers no longer producing or taken over
- Adler Windkraftanlagen (Germany) was founded in 1990 by Köster Windkraftanlagen Heide
- Adwen part of Siemens / Gamesa, successor to MULTIBRID and AREVA Wind, company is no longer tracked as a producer
- AN Wind Energie (Germany) was taken over by Siemens Windenergie in November 2005
- AREVA Wind GmbH formerly MULTIBRID GmbH, now Adwen GmbH
- Autoflug (Germany / Rellingen) Systems were manufactured for a while (A100, A1200), 1995 withdrawal from the market
- Baoding Huide Wind Engineering Co. Ltd. (BHD)
- BARD (Germany / Emden) - insolvent, now Ocean Breeze Energy GmbH & Co
- Blaaster (Norway) - Blaaster Wind technologies AS
- Bonus (Denmark) part of Siemens since 10/2004, previously Danregn Vindkraft
- Brümmer (Germany) 1961 to approx. 1991
- BWU (Trampe, Germany) BWU-Brandenburgische Wind- und Umwelttechnologien GmbH became part of REpower in 2001
- Clipper Windpower - only service and maintenance business
- Conergy Wind GmbH (Germany) was sold as a division, since October 2007 PowerWind GmbH (2012 insolvency)
- DeWind (Germany, USA) - acquired in 2006 by Composite Technology Corporation CTC (USA), since 2009 part of Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Co. Ltd. (South Korea)
- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) after the takeover of DeWind from CTC in 2009, business closure in 2015
- Ebara - takeover by AMSC
- Ecotècnia - takeover by the French Alstom in June 2007
- Enron - after the bankruptcy, the wind business was taken over by General Electric
- Eozen (Spain) - no longer active
- eviag AG - taken over by the Fuhrländer group of companies in 2011
- Frisia (Minden, Germany), until 2001 producer of wind turbines; founded as Windstrom Frisia GmbH , trading as Frisia Windkraftanlagen Produktion GmbH since 1997 , after the bankruptcy in 2001 as Frisia Schaltanlagen GmbH supplier and service provider for wind turbine manufacturers
- Fuhrländer - business closure
- Fuji Heavy Industries - Subaru brand, acquired by Hitachi in 2012
- GET / Gesellschaft für Energietechnik, cooperation with HDW Nobiskrug: GET Danwind 150/27, 600/41, later takeover of AUTOFLUG, bankruptcy 1997
- Guascor - planned to enter the market with the 2 MW turbine GW 85-2, now part of Siemens
- Harakosan - today STX Heavy Industries
- Innovative Windpower AG (Germany / Bremerhaven), insolvency in 2012
- Jacobs Energie (Germany / Husum) merged into REpower
- Jeumont (France) former subsidiary of Framatome , production stopped in 2004
- Kähler Maschinenbau (Germany / Norderheistedt) Construction of licensed systems by Dr. Wagner: 30kW
- Köster Windkraftanlagen (Germany / Heide) very early manufacturer: adler 25, Debra 25, until 1990
- Hanseatische AG / HAG (Germany), Günther Wagner was an early pioneer with various wind turbines on land and on the ship, collapse in 1997
- Hüllmann KG (Germany / Tornesch) 1979 10 kW plant, 1987 100 kW plant, bankruptcy 1992
- Husumer Schiffswerft / HSW (Germany) went into bankruptcy, the wind power sector was then taken over by Jacobs Energie (today Repower / Senvion).
- Kenetech (USA) Acquired by GE Wind (USA)
- Kenersys (India / Germany) location in Wismar (Germany) closed, Indian production sold to Senvion in August 2016
- Lagerwey former Dutch manufacturer of wind turbines with and without gearboxes; meanwhile new start of Henk Lagerweij under the name Lagerwey Wind as an engineering company for direct drive turbines
- MAN (Germany) aeromann, Growian
- Made (Spain) acquired by Gamesa (Spain) in 2003
- MBB has given up the business field; built the one-winged Monopteros
- Micon (Denmark) merged with Nordtank to form NEG Micon
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Offshore activities brought into MHI Vestas, onshore activities discontinued
- MTorres - bought by Swiss Energy
- Nedwind (Netherlands)
- NEG Micon (Denmark) emerged from the merger of Nordtank and Micon; merged with Vestas
- Nordic wind power (USA) 1990 Nordic Windpower AB (Sweden), 2005 then USA, N1000-54, insolvent 2012
- Nordic Windpower (Sweden, USA) - insolvent since 2013
- Nordtank (Denmark) merged with Micon to form NEG Micon
- Nordwind Energieanlagen (insolvent 2016)
- N.prior energy - dissolved in 2012, formerly Prokon Nord Energiesysteme ( empty )
- Pfleiderer Wind Energy (Germany) - sale of the know-how to Fuhrländer (smaller systems) and Prokon Nord in Leer (MULTIBRID, today Adwen GmbH) and Schaaf Industrie AG (production of steel towers)
- Renk- tacke
- Scanwind (Norway) - gearless turbines, taken over by GE Wind (USA)
- SEEWIND Windenergiesysteme GmbH - Founded in 1991 and internationally active in North and South Korea, Belarus, Europe. KW class systems. From 2002 specialization on foundation construction and wind farm infrastructure.
- Südwind (Germany) went bankrupt, some rights were then sold to Nordex (or Borsig Energy). The development was taken over by the Indian company Suzlon . Since then, Suzlon has been running a research center in Rostock.
- Tacke (Germany) - was bought by Enron (USA) after bankruptcy, then went to General Electric (USA) after Enron bankruptcy
- Ventis (Germany, Braunschweig): subsidiary of Schubert Elektrotechnik, 100 kW, insolvency 1995
- Wind World (Denmark) - merged into NEG Micon, which in turn merged with Vestas
- Zond (USA) - incorporated into Enron, later General Electric
Technical concepts of the manufacturer
The following table shows the technical concepts of the active manufacturers. Only systems with a capacity of at least 1 MW are taken into account (as of 2007).
Manufacturer | Rotor speed | Power limitation | transmission | generator | Converter | Notes / special features |
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Acciona | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
Bard Holding | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
Clipper Windpower | variable | Pitch | Yes | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | 4 generators |
DeWind | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
variable | Pitch | yes (with torque converter) | synchronous | no converter | ||
Ecotècnia | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
firmly | barn | Yes | asynchronous | no converter | ||
Enercon | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous | Full converter | |
Eozen | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | Manufactures equipment developed by Vensys |
FWT energy | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Full converter | |
Fuji Heavy Industries | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | Leeward |
Gamesa | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
General Electric | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
variable | Pitch | Yes | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | ||
Gold wind | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | Manufactures equipment developed by Vensys |
Harakosan | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | |
Leading wind | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | |
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries | firmly | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous | no converter | |
variable | Pitch | ? | ? | ? | MWT92 / 2.4, MWT95 / 2.4 | |
MTorres | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous | Full converter | |
MULTIBRID | variable | Pitch | yes (low translation) | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | |
Nordex | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
REpower | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (double fed) | Partial converter | |
Scanwind | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | |
variable | Pitch | yes (variable translation) | asynchronous | no converter (?) | ||
Siemens | variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous | Full converter | |
firmly | active stall | Yes | asynchronous | no converter | ||
Suzlon | slightly variable | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous (adjustable slip) | no converter | |
firmly | Pitch | Yes | asynchronous | no converter | ||
Vensys | variable | Pitch | No | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter | |
Vestas | variable | Pitch | Yes | optionally: asynchronous (double fed) or synchronously permanently excited | Partial or full converter | |
firmly | active stall | Yes | asynchronous | no converter | ||
WinWinD | variable | Pitch | yes (low translation) | synchronous (permanently excited) | Full converter |
Market shares
Companies | origin | Market share 2005 in% | Market share 2007 in% | Market share 2009 in% | Market share 2011 in% | Market share 2014 in% | Market share 2015 in% |
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Gold wind | People's Republic of China | / | / | 7.2 | 8.7 | 9 | 12.5 |
Vestas | Denmark | 27.9 | 22.8 | 12.5 | 12.9 | 11.6 | 11.8 |
GE wind | United States | 17.7 | 16.6 | 12.4 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 9.5 |
Siemens Wind Power | Germany | 5.5 | 7.1 | 5.9 | 6.3 | 9.5 | 8th |
Gamesa | Spain | 12.9 | 15.4 | 6.7 | 8th | 4.5 | 5.4 |
Enercon | Germany | 13.2 | 14th | 8.5 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 5 |
Guodian United Power | People's Republic of China | / | / | / | 7.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
Mingyang | People's Republic of China | / | / | / | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
Envision | People's Republic of China | / | / | / | / | 3.7 | 4th |
CSIC Haizhuang | People's Republic of China | / | / | / | / | / | 3.4 |
Suzlon Energy | India | 6.1 | 10.5 | 6.4 | 7.6 | 5.5 | / |
Senvion (REpower) | Germany | 3.1 | / | / | / | / | / |
Nordex | Germany | 2.6 | 3.4 | / | / | / | / |
Ecotècnia (Alstom Wind) | Spain | 2.1 | / | / | / | / | / |
Mitsubishi | Japan | 2 | / | / | / | / | / |
Acciona | Spain | / | 4.4 | / | / | / | / |
Sinovel | People's Republic of China | / | 3.4 | 9.2 | 9 | / | / |
Dongfang Electric | People's Republic of China | / | / | 6.5 | / | / | / |
Other | 5 | 10.5 | 18.5 | 21st | 31.7 | 31.4 |
Installed wind power by company
According to wind turbine manufacturers, the following picture emerges for the installed wind energy capacity:
Companies | Total installed capacity [GW] |
was standing |
---|---|---|
Vestas | 83 | 2016-12 |
Siemens Gamesa | 75 | 2017-05 |
GE wind | 50 | 2017-05 |
Enercon | 43.1 | 2017-05 |
Gold wind | 24 | 2014-12 |
Suzlon | 16.1 | 2016-02 |
Senvion | 16.1 | 2016-12 |
Sinovel | 15.7 | 2014-12 |
Nordex SE | 13.14 | 2016-02 |
See also
- Wind Generator - Information and manufacturer of small wind turbines for home, yard and boat applications
- List of European Wind Turbine Types - Information on different types of wind turbines
Web links
- Overview of almost all wind turbines currently available on the market from the German Wind Energy Association (BWE)
Individual evidence
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