The systems will be used to manufacture Doosan’s onshore and offshore 3MW wind turbines. AMSC will ship the control systems to Doosan between mid 2011 and mid 2012.

Doosan’s 3 MW pilot model has been in operation at Korea’s Jeju Island since October 2009. “With the offshore wind market in Asia now entering a phase of rapid growth, we expect multi-megawatt wind energy systems such as Doosan’s WinDS3000 will be in increasingly high demand,” said AMSC chief executive Greg Yurek.

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