Research and Markets has announced the addition of "China Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Report 2007" to their offering. Improved technologies and increased output results in wind power cost to continuously drop, to a nickel/kilowatt-hour. Wind power cost is expected to further reduce by 30% by 2010, which has been close to the regular energy cost. In 2006, newly-increased installed capacity of wind power in China was 1337 MW, accounting for 8.9% of world's total newly-increased, up by 165.83% year on year.
The installed capacity of wind power in China by 2006 accumulated to 2604 MW, accounting for 3.5% of global total, up by 105.29%.
Overseas manufacturers have great advantages in China's wind turbine market, and they shared 55.10% of newly-increased installed capacity and 65.92% of total installed capacity of China in 2006. Vestas, Gamesa and GEWind are the top three, respectively responsible for 18.73%, 18.63% and 10.74% of total installed capacity of China.
Currently, China's domestic-funded wind turbine manufacturers include mainly Goldwind, Sinovel, Windey, Dongfang Steam Turbine and HEC, of which, Goldwind is dominant with market share in 2006 reaching 80.81% among China's domestic-funded wind turbine manufactures and newly-increased installed capacity accounting for 33.29% of total newly-increased. By the end of 2006, the market share of Goldwind accumulated to 83.36% among China's domestic-funded wind turbine manufacturers and installed capacity accounted for 25.68% of total.
