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NextEra Energy Resources, the nation’s leader in wind energy generation, has selected GE’s (NYSE: GE) WindBOOST* technology to enhance the output from its fleet of approximately 800 GE 1.5sle wind turbines.
GE’s WindBOOST control software makes it possible for GE 1.5sle wind turbines to increase output by up to 100 kilowatts, enhancing productivity from 1.5 to 1.6 [...]
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GE (NYSE: GE) has received commitments to supply wind turbines for wind farms to be developed in Brazil that will add more than 400 megawatts of power to the country’s clean energy capacity. These projects will mark the debut of GE’s wind turbine technology in Brazil.
In December of 2009, the Brazilian government held its first technology [...]
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Siemens and DONG Energy have further expanded their cooperation in offshore wind power. In March 2009, DONG Energy and the Siemens Energy Sector entered into an agreement for the supply of up to 500 offshore wind turbines with a total capacity of up to 1,800 megawatts. The supply agreement was the world’s largest agreement of [...]
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The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a division company of Siemens Financial Services, has been awarded a contract to develop 4GW of wind farms by 2020 as part of The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore wind farm programme. SMart Wind will develop projects in the “Hornsea” zone, [...]
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GE announced that it has signed contracts to supply 88 wind turbines to HECIC New Energy Co., Ltd, one of China’s leading wind energy developers, for three new projects in Hebei and Shanxi Provinces. The projects will support the rapid growth of wind energy investments in China, which today is the world’s fourth largest producer [...]
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Siemens Energy received the order to connect the London Array offshore wind farm to the power supply network. The order volume is EUR128 million. Purchasers are Dong Energy, E.ON and Masdar, the wind farm’s owners. Siemens Energy was already appointed to supply the 175 wind turbines for the wind farm as well. With a total [...]
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GE (NYSE:GE) announced it has received a $1.4 billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy to supply wind turbines and provide services for an 845-megawatt (MW) wind farm project to be located in Oregon. The wind farm, called Shepherds Flat, has received the majority of the necessary government permits to operate and is ready [...]
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Siemens Wind Power continues growth trend to become one of the world’s top three providers of wind turbines by 2012
Siemens has confirmed its objective to become one of the world’s top providers of wind turbines. Siemens entered the wind power market five years ago with its acquisition of Denmark’s Bonus Energy. Since then, wind power [...]
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GE (NYSE: GE), French developer and energy producer Valorem SAS, as well as BL Finance have officially opened a new wind farm in the Picardy Region, north of Paris, on November 27, 2009, marking the first project in France to feature GE’s most advanced wind turbine technology. The installation will help the co-operators, Valorem and [...]
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Next generation onshore wind turbines: Siemens installs prototype of three-megawatt direct drive wind turbine
Siemens Energy has installed the first prototype of a newly designed direct-drive wind turbine. The new SWT-3.0-101 DD is a gearless machine with a power rating of three megawatts (MW). It has a rotor diameter of 101 meters. The prototype was installed [...]
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