OWA Daily News | Latin American debut: Mingyang Intelligent will install its first fan in Brazil

The company recently announced a partnership agreement with Companhia Paranaense de Energia (Copel), a major Brazilian utility company, to install its first wind turbine in Latin America. This cooperation marks an important milestone in Mingyang's entry into the Brazilian wind power market.

Mingyang Intelligence will install its MySE 6.25-172 fan for Copel, which will be shipped from China to Brazil and is scheduled to be installed in early 2025 and officially put into service in the second quarter. Although Mingyang announced an order for 240MW of wind turbines with an unidentified customer in January this year, the partnership is expected to be Mingyang's first actual installation of wind turbines in Latin America.

The collaboration's Mingyang wind turbines will be used at Copel's existing wind farm in northeastern Brazil to further promote clean energy development in the region.

Marco Wobeto, regional manager of Mingyang Intelligence Latin America, said on the social media platform: "This is not just the simple sale of a fan, it represents the realization of a dream. After years of hard work and challenges, we achieved our goal of installing our first wind turbine on the American continent, especially in Brazil, which makes me extremely proud."

Since setting up an office in Sao Paulo in 2021, Mingyang Intelligent has become the second Chinese fan manufacturer after Goldwind to install fans in Brazil. Previously, Goldwind mainly sold older, smaller fans to the Brazilian market. However, Goldwind recently acquired an old General Electric plant in Camasari, Bahia, which it plans to use as its first overseas production site for larger wind turbines.

Meanwhile, Vision Energy, another Chinese wind turbine maker, has installed turbines at wind farms in Argentina, Chile and Mexico, a sign of growing competition from Chinese manufacturers in the Latin American market.

While "cheap" Chinese wind turbines have sparked controversy in Western markets, Brazil has seen an increase in demand for foreign equipment as the domestic wind turbine manufacturing industry shrinks. As a result, developers and utilities in Brazil are likely to welcome this lower-cost alternative, especially as bidding for wind projects is limited.