Drive for renewables

UK engineering consultancy Romax Technology is working with one of China’s largest industrial machinery manufacturers to develop a new 5MW wind turbine gearbox.

Romax hopes the collaboration with DHI-DCW will help it expand further into the Chinese wind energy industry.

A contract and agreement between the two companies was signed by Jiajing Song, chairman of DHI-DCW, and Peter Poon, chief executive of Romax.

The agreement builds on the two companies’ recent partnership that resulted in the design and manufacture of the gearbox for China’s largest wind turbine, the 3MW Sinovel turbine, which has been installed in China’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Shanghai.

In that collaboration, Romax developed the design and provided technology training, prototyping, testing and certification. DHI-DCW helped test the prototype and gave advice on manufacturing.

With the 5MW wind turbine gearbox project, both parties will work more closely on the design and development phases.