The big three western turbine OEMs – Vestas, Siemens Gamesa and GE – left empty handed after bidding for a share of the world’s largest wind project when local Chinese groups swept the board with lower prices.

Five Chinese OEMs shared all the 6GW tendered by state power giant SPIC for its Ulanqab project in Inner Mongolia.

Shanghai Electric secured the largest chunk with 1.4GW