American Superconductor lands India wind deal (Boston)

American Superconductor Corp. has landed a $20 million initial order for electrical control systems wind turbines from India’s Ghodawat Energy Pvt. Ltd.

Devens, Mass.-based AMSC will start shipping parts under the deal in the middle of this year, officials said.

Ghodawat operates wind turbine farms in four states in India. The company, which is the renewable energy arm of Sanjay Ghodawat Group, runs more than 150 wind turbines that produce more than 100 megawatts of electricity. Ghodawat also has a wind turbine tower-manufacturing operation, Shrenik Industries Pvt. Ltd. That unit has started manufacturing full 1.65 MW wind turbines that were designed by and licensed from AMSC’s subsidiary AMSC Windtec. The two companies signed the licensing deal in back in 2008.

Read the full post in the Boston Business Journal.