GE Renewable Energy has developed Sierra, an onshore wind turbine platform designed specifically for the North American region. The 3.0-3.4 MW turbine features a 140-m rotor and at a range of hub heights, including a 500 ft option and includes GE’s two-piece blade GE has today manufactured, installed and commissioned its first site of Sierra…

RWE Renewables has partnered with GE Renewable Energy to repower its Panther Creek III wind farm in West Texas. The repowering of Panther Creek III includes the replacement of a significant portion of the wind turbine components, including the installation of longer blades and upgrading existing gearboxes. The refurbishment effectively increases the annual production for…

As cases of COVID-19 started cropping up across the United States in March, Caroline Shaw, sourcing manager at GE Renewable Energy’s wind turbine factory in Pensacola, Florida, knew the pandemic would alter many parts of her job. A team of her coworkers had been assigned to screen employees for fevers or other signs of infection,…

GE Renewable Energy and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) announced the arrival of a blade that is part of the most powerful offshore wind turbine in the industry at MassCEC’s Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) in Boston. The 107-meter blade will undergo a series of fatigue tests that involve moving it millions of times…

The National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium recently announced a new executive director, Carrie Cullen Hitt, and board of directors’ private sponsor member, General Electric Renewable Energy (GE). “I am excited to work with Consortium members and the broader community to realize the potential of offshore wind. The Consortium is a great platform from…

GE Renewable Energy confirms that the blade for for Haliade-X 12-MW wind turbine has arrived at ORE Catapult’s testing facilities in Blyth in the North East of England. The blade features a 220-meter rotor, a 107-meter blade — the longest ever manufactured. In the next year, the LM Wind Power blade will undergo a full…

GE Renewable Energy revealed the first manufactured components of the Haliade-X 12-MW offshore wind turbine at its production site in Saint-Nazaire, France.  The first nacelle will be shipped from Saint-Nazaire to Rotterdam-Maasvlakte in the Netherlands over the coming weeks, where its components will be assembled into the Haliade-X prototype and be tested there. The prototype…

GE Renewable Energy announced plans to recruit more than 200 employees at its LM Wind Power wind-turbine blade manufacturing site in Cherbourg, France. So far, 60 out of the 200 employees have been recruited and just began intensive training at the factory’s Center of Excellence. Opened in April 2018, the Cherbourg facility became the first…

GE Renewable Energy has confirmed that the Haliade-X 12-MW nacelle and 107-meter-long blade will be shipped to the UK as part of an advanced technology testing program that will focus on enhancing the Haliade-X platform before it enters into serial production in 2021. The turbine’s nacelle will undergo a program that will replicate real-world operational…

GE Renewable Energy has successfully installed the prototype for its Cypress platform, its largest onshore wind turbine. Now fully operational, the prototype is producing power at a rated level of 5.3 MW in Wieringermeer, Netherlands. Company officials hail the milestone as a key step in commercializing a unit able to lower the cost of electricity…

GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and SIF Holding Netherlands) announced that they have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12-MW wind turbine prototype in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam (NL) during summer 2019. The deal includes five years of testing and a 15-year full service Operation and Maintenance agreement. This…

Juhl Energy has selected GE Renewable Energy to supply equipment for the first commercial integrated solar-wind hybrid power generation project in the U.S. The Minnesota-based clean energy company has developed the 2.0-MW community-based renewable energy project to provide low-cost, locally generated energy to the Lake Region Electric Cooperative of Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. Bank of America has…

GE Renewable Energy and the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult have announced a $11 million four-year research partnership aimed at minimizing the time people have to spend offshore, which will enhance both safety and operating costs for offshore wind farms. The “Stay Ashore!” program is built on three pillars: Reliability by design, which is…

GE Renewable Energy has been selected to provide a range of services for TerraForm Power‘s North American wind fleet, one of the region’s largest with more than 900 turbines. The agreement leverages GE’s service and digital capabilities to improve and optimize turbine performance while enabling the ability to deliver unique customer-focused financial outcomes and metrics.…

GE Renewable Energy announced an agreement with Global Power Generation Australia (GPG) to supply and install 28 3.4-MW wind turbines at one of Australia’s largest renewable developments, the 91-MW Crookwell 2 Wind Farm near Goulburn. Once operational, the wind farm will produce an excess of 300,000 MWh during the average year. Due to be completed…

The first GE Renewable Energy offshore wind turbine nacelle to be tested in the U.K. has been delivered to Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult‘s 15-MW drive train test facility in Blyth, Northumberland. The Haliade 150-6MW nacelle reportedly will undergo advanced test and demonstration programs that accurately replicate real-world operational conditions to further enhance performance and reliability.…

AWEA’s WINDPOWER 2018, as you would expect, featured a variety of exciting announcements from companies in the wind energy industry. From May 7 to 11, thousands of renewable energy leaders and innovators gathered in Chicago to learn about new technologies and business processes that, when combined, are moving the wind energy market forward. We thought…

GE Renewable Energy announced its first wind energy project in Chile with Arroyo Energy Compañía de Energías Renovables Limitada. GE will be supplying six 3.6 MW turbines with 137-meter rotors and a 110-meter tower. The machines will be installed at the El Maitén and El Nogal wind sites in the south of the country, representing a total of 21.8 MW. Chile has 1.7 GW of wind power…

GE Renewable Energy announced that it has reached 40 GW of onshore wind capacity in North America, powering the equivalent to over 11 million homes and representing a significant amount of the total onshore wind installed capacity on the continent. In the United States, GE has commissioned 38 GW of wind capacity over 15 years of…