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China's Sany enters offshore wind arena with 'breakthrough' order

Sany launches offshore wind ambitions with order for 'milestone' project in Chinese waters

A test bench for testing new wind turbine components.
A test bench for testing new wind turbine components.Photo: Sany
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Chinese turbine making giant Sany has entered the offshore wind arena with a “breakthrough” order for its 13.6MW turbines.

Sany Renewable Energy announced yesterday on LinkedIn that it had secured an order for a 200MW wind farm being developed by Guangdong Energy Group in China.

That site will deploy 14 of Sany’s 13.6MW machines and one 10MW unit.

Sany said the “breakthrough” order was its “first batch-commercialisation order for offshore wind turbines in the large-megawatt era.”

Supplying the “milestone project” therefore marks its “official entry into a new phase where our offshore and onshore wind power businesses develop in parallel.”

Paulo Fernando Soares, managing director for Sany in Europe, told Recharge that the offshore wind business “is, for the foreseeable future, a Chinese business.”

“Of course for us, outside of China, it shows the world our ambitions."

Sany had the best-selling onshore turbine in China last year, claimed Soares, continuing that Sany had “about the same volume of orders” for its 10MW SI-230100 machine as German OEM Nordex’s “total order entry” in 2024.

“Going offshore was the next obvious step,” he said. “We have not only design capabilities to meet the current requirements in China (commercial and technical), but also, the manufacturing infrastructure and testing capabilities.”

Sany will only target its offshore machines at the Chinese market for the "foreseeable future," said Soares. "We have no plans for Europe at this moment."

Soares is however leading the turbine maker’s charge into Europe's onshore wind sector, with Sany last year launching a new 8MW machine for the market.
Sany secured the fifth-largest order intake of any Chinese turbine maker last year, according to recent figures from Wood Mackenzie. Internationally, it is the sixth largest turbine maker by market share, with Vestas the only European OEM ahead of it.

All of the other top turbine makers in those rankings, Denmark's Vestas and Goldwind, Envision, Windey and Mingyang from China, have strong offshore wind offerings.

Sany also last year announced plans to build its first international factory in Kazakhstan, as it and other Chinese turbine makers pursue overseas expansion amid brutal price competition at home.
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Published 21 March 2025, 08:21Updated 21 March 2025, 08:21
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