“We’re in the pre-commissioning stage now,” she says, with five turbines erected on private property leased from two landowners. Ralls is west of the city of Lubbock in the Texas Panhandle, a region with strong wind resource.

The project, which Sany is funding, will demonstrate performance of the SE8720IIIE model 2MW turbine for potential US buyers, who are largely unfamiliar with the Chinese vendor and its turbine offerings.