AMSC's wholly owned subsidiary AMSC Windtec will be involved in this project to produce 5 megawatt (MW) full-conversion turbines in association with China's third-largest wind turbine manufacturer. The production is scheduled to begin in 2012.

Under the contract, Dongfang has exclusive rights to the 5 MW full conversion wind turbine designs in China. It plans to begin supplying the wind turbines for the worldwide offshore market in 2012.

AMSC retains the right of first refusal to supply the core electrical components for these turbines.

In end-2008, the global wind energy market had a total installed capacity of 120 gigawatts (GW). Industry research firm Emerging Energy Research (EER) projects this to grow to over 600 GW by 2020.

The global offshore wind power market is expected to grow from its current total installed capacity of 1.5 GW to 41.5 GW in 2020.