Continually developing wind turbines manufacturers , Taiwan-based Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd., perhaps the oldest name in industrial motor making in Taiwan and world’s third-largest industrial motor manufacturer by market share, is seen as the major player in the sector on the island.

Taiwan’s wind turbines industry is literally being spun faster by Teco, which developed Taiwan’s first domestically-made 2MW permanent-magnet synchronous wind turbine motor in 2010 to put the island on the global map of such motor suppliers, and more notably activated the small wind turbine motor supply chain on the island. In comparison, the world’s largest capacity wind turbine is the Enercon E-126, rated at 7.58MW when it was introduced in 2007, according to ECOGIZMO online dated Dec. 2, 2010.

The 2MW wind turbine is a product of Teco’s years-long dedication to researching and developing wind turbine engineering, with the chairman Liu Chao-kai noting that, unlike traditional double-fed induction motors, this wind generator has a permanent-magnet generator, hence boasting better power-supply stability and power generation efficiency, as well as enabling easier maintenance. Teco, the largest wind turbine manufacturer in Taiwan, is the only manufacturer capable of making such mainstream wind turbines generator  in greater China, says Liu.

Teco runs global manufacturing operations, including a wind-turbine factory in Round Rock, Texas, China’s Jiangsu and Fujian provinces, and Taoyuan in northern Taiwan. In the 1990s, Teco bought Westinghouse and later renamed it TECO-Westinghouse Motor Company, which has a plant in Round Rock.