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GE achieves 1,500 wind turbines installed in Canada

By Nic Sharpley | October 28, 2014

GE wind turbines at McLean’s Mountain in Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

GE wind turbines at McLean’s Mountain in Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

GE today announced it has achieved its 1,500th installed wind turbine in Canada, bringing GE’s total of installed wind capacity across Canada to 2 gigawatts (GW)—or enough equivalent energy to power over 435,000 Canadian homes. GE is celebrating this milestone with wind industry peers at this week’s CanWEA 2014 Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition in Montreal.

The landmark turbine is a GE 1.6-100 wind turbine for China Longyuan Canada’s Dufferin wind farm. Dufferin is the wind developer’s first wind farm in North America.

GE also installed its first Canadian 1.6-100 and 2.85-103 wind turbines in 2014.

Since its first wind turbine installation in Canada in 2004 in Alberta, GE’s wind presence has expanded to four provinces—Alberta, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec.  GE’s installed base of wind turbines in Canada range from GE 1.5-77 to 2.85-103 wind turbines, with the most units installed in Ontario.

According to the Canadian Wind Energy Association, wind energy supplies nearly three percent of Canada’s electricity demand with over 8 GW of installed wind capacity. CanWEA has set a goal to reach a target of producing 20 percent or more of Canada’s energy with wind energy by 2025, and Canada ranked fifth overall in global wind installations in 2013.

GE has a global wind turbine fleet installed base of more than 37 gigawatts (GW). Click here to see GE Canada’s graphic illustration of wind farms across Canada, and the potential of wind power in the country.

Click here to watch a video on GE’s participation in Canadian wind energy, featuring McLean’s Mountain Wind Farm in Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

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www.ge.com


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