GE and Green Investment Group Limited, part of Macquarie Group, have partnered to deliver and operate 650-MW of onshore wind through the Markbygden ETT wind farm in Northern Sweden. The project will be the largest single site onshore wind farm in Europe, increasing Sweden’s installed wind generation by more than 12.5 %. The equity partners…

GE recently announced that it has reached 5,000 MW of installed wind capacity in the country, making it the first company to reach that milestone and confirming the company’s role in the expansion of wind energy in Brazil. As part of that 5,000 MW GE’s Onshore Wind business, a unit of GE Renewable Energy, will commission another…

Invenergy, North America’s largest independent, privately held renewable energy company, along with GE Renewable Energy, announced a 2,000-MW wind farm that will be the largest in the U.S. and second-largest in the world, once operational. The Wind Catcher facility is currently under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle and will generate wind electricity from 800 state-of-the-art…

GE Renewable Energy has announced an agreement with HECIC to supply a total of 81 wind turbines for install at the Senjitu III & Qiansongba wind projects in the Fengning county of the Hebei province of China. This includes 54 units of GE’s 2.75-120 turbines for Senjitu III, and another 27 units of GE’s 1.85-82.5…

GE Energy Financial Services announced it will invest $31 million in Mytrah Vayu Private Limited to support development of 200-MW wind energy project in Andhra Pradesh. This is the company’s fourth renewable investment in India. GE Energy Financial Services entered the Indian market in 2011, when it made an equity investment in a 500 MW…

GE introduced the latest in its line of brilliant wind turbines with the 2.2-107 and announced an order of 32 turbines from Omega Energia in the Piaui region of Brazil. This is the first order for GE’s 2.2-107 wind turbine, which was selected by Omega Energia in the A-5 Brazil energy auction on December 13,…

GE’s renewable energy business announced that its Wind PowerUp platform has secured more than 1,000 units under contract to date. PowerUp, a GE Predictivity solution, is a customized software-enabled platform that allows wind farm operators to increase annual energy production on their turbines by up to 5 percent, taking into account environmental conditions. A five…

GE’s renewable energy business announced a technology demonstration of a seven-meter blade extension, taking GE wind turbines from a 77-meter rotor to a 91-meter rotor. The extension increases the swept area of the rotor by 40 percent and increases the energy production by more than 20 percent. There are currently two prototypes that have been…