With the global wind turbine industry anticipating economic recovery and a period of unprecedented growth starting in 2010, wind turbine component suppliers are adapting their strategies to take on the challenges of a more global, larger‐scale, and more technically complex supply chain. Following years of sellers’ markets, the global recession and the resulting slowdown in 2009 have forced component suppliers to prepare for a resurgent market in which intense competition will leave little room for long lead times, low quality, and high prices.
Suppliers of blades, bearings, gearboxes, generators, and towers are taking advantage of the present market weakness to realign their strategies in parallel with shifting demand for larger turbines delivered in more markets which require higher performance levels. This realignment has included relocating facilities to minimize transport costs, investing in larger model production lines, and focusing on performance improvement with technology innovations.
EER’s new study, Wind Turbine Supply Chain Strategies, 2009–2020, provides analysis of wind turbine market trends at this critical juncture for the industry, starting with the evolving supply chain strategies of wind turbine OEMs, and focusing on the strategies of key component suppliers, their products, and their market growth prospects within the context of the global wind turbine industry.
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