The Switch

Contract signing ceremony.

In the summer of 2008, The Switch and its Chinese partner Dongfang Electrical Machinery Co. Ltd (DFEM) entered into a cooperation agreement to combine world-class technology in permanent magnet (PM) generators from The Switch with DFEM’s vast production capabilities. According to the contract signed in December 2009, the enterprise will now take off with 2.2 MW wind power generators manufactured in DFEM’s brand-new factory in China.

DFEM recently inaugurated a new factory in Deyang, in the southwest Sichuan Province in China, where it is able to produce up to 2,000 PM generators per year in the range of 1 MW to 6 MW. With this mass production capacity at hand, The Switch and its partnering company DFEM are ready to supply the fast-growing market for megawatt-class PM machines.

“The high-speed PM generator solution will replace the older double-fed solution in the near future. This project with the 2.2 MW high-speed PMG is of great significance for both The Switch and DFEM, and offers an excellent foothold in the wind power market in China,” states Director Zeng Shang Fu from DFEM. “I'm sure that an increasing number of customers will choose our solution in the future,” he concludes.

DFEM is part of the China state-owned Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) that is specialized in power equipment manufacturing. The Chinese Central Government has nominated DEC as one of the key state-owned enterprises for the national economy.

DFEM’s new factory in Deyang, China, boasts an impressive production capacity of 5,000 MW per year.

Large-scale production cooperation takes off in China