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Digital Wind: High-Powered Computing Helps Scientists Grasp Airflows At Offshore Wind Farms
At its theoretical peak, the Summit supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, can calculate in one second what it would take the entire human population 305 days to do. That formidable mathematical horsepower comes in handy when modeling highly complex systems — such as how gusty sea winds hamper the performance of powerful offshore wind turbines.
GE Drivetrain Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, announced today that the Company has launched a wind generator and control systems division to serve its wind turbine customers around the globe.
Following the success of GE Drivetrain Technologies' wind gearbox business, the Company will immediately offer doubly fed induction and permanent magnet generators in the 2 -- 6 megawatt (MW) power range.
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Shenyang, China (March 5, 2009) -- GE Drivetrain Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ: APWR) announced today that the companies have signed agreements for GE Drivetrain Technologies to supply A-Power with 2.7 megawatt (MW) wind turbine gearboxes and to establish a Joint Venture partnership for a wind turbine gearbox manufacturing plant in China. The contracts follow the signing of letters of intent in January of this year.
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ERIE, Pa. and Shenyang, China (January 12, 2009) -- GE Drivetrain Technologies, a unit of GE Transportation, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ: APWR) announced today that they have signed two Letters of Intent (LOI), one for GE Drivetrain Technologies to supply A-Power with 2.7 megawatt (MW) wind turbine gearboxes and a second to establish a Joint Venture partnership for a wind turbine gearbox assembly plant.