American Superconductor Corporation, a power technologies company, has received an initial order for 17 wind turbine electrical control systems from Inox Wind Limited (IWL), part of India’s Inox Group of Companies and a provider of wind energy products and associated services.

As stated, the electrical control systems will be deployed in 2 megawatt doubly-fed induction wind turbines licensed from AMSC’s wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary under a contract announced in May 2009.

Also, this license enables Inox with the right to manufacture and sell the wind turbines globally. Inox official also clarified that the company has successfully completed the erection and commissioning of its first 2 MW wind turbine and has already begun volume production.

“India has tremendous power demands and serious carbon emission and pollution issues, all of which are now being addressed through the deployment of renewable energy technologies, particularly wind turbines, that produce substantial amounts of electricity with zero-emissions,”

Devansh Jain, director of Inox Wind Limited said.

“We intend to be a market leader in the high-growth wind power market in India and to eventually become an exporter of wind turbines to other parts of the world. With our first wind turbine now commissioned and our manufacturing plants operational, we are on track to begin full-scale production later this year,” Jain added.

AMSC’s wind turbine power electronics and control systems include the company’s proprietary PowerModule power converters, pitch and yaw converters, SCADA systems and integrated control systems. They enable reliable, high-performance wind turbine operation by controlling power flows, regulating voltage, monitoring system performance, controlling the pitch of wind turbine blades and the yaw of the turbines to maximize efficiency.

 “Inox has formed a dynamic renewable energy business and has quickly expanded its offerings to include highly efficient and reliable multi-megawatt wind turbines,” Greg Yurek, founder and chief executive officer at AMSC said.

“We expect Inox will be a significant player in the Indian wind market in the years ahead and that it will be able to participate aggressively in the global wind market,” Yurek added.

With a presence across India, the $2 billion Inox Group has a diverse line of businesses and employs approximately 5,000 people. Incorporated in 2009, IWL is a fully integrated player in the wind energy market with manufacturing facilities in Ahmedabad and Una in India. In addition to its wind turbine manufacturing operations, the Inox group owns and operates several wind farms in India.