Wind power project EPC bidding in China’s Inner Mongolia region has fallen all the way down to $299 per kW in a recent project tender – a record low. Per industry estimates, 45% of this is equipment cost, meaning that turbines cost as little as $140 per kW, little more than the per kW price of solar modules. Manufacturing has begun for the world’s first 25 MW size wind turbines, with Luoyang Bearing Science and Technology Company producing gearbox and main shaft bearings from a new production line. In other large-size turbine news coming out of China this month, CSSC Haizhuang Windpower has opened an offshore wind turbine testing platform in the waters of Shandong Province, China, which is to…