Thursday, February 23, 2012

'One dead, one missing' after China turbine blaze


An engineer has died and another classed as missing after a wind turbine made by China’s CSR caught fire in Inner Mongolia, according to local reports.
The accident happened at the Zhurihe Wind Farm No. 2 in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, operated by Huaneng Renewables, says Chinese business newspaper 21cbh. The two maintenance staff were carrying out work on the turbine’s power converter, which was manufactured by AMSC of the US, sources told the newspaper. AMSC spokesman Jason Fredette says the company "just learned about this accident through the media today. ... Our initial communications with people involved with this wind project indicate that our products were not involved in or the cause of the accident."
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