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GE Renewable Energy, partners complete successful trials in automated blade finishing program

July 29, 2021
  • GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power, NREL test innovations under pilot project on blade sections
  • Successful trials completed at LM Wind Power Grand Forks factory on an actual wind turbine blade in production
  • Program partners looking at industrializing the new technology

Niskayuna, NY, July 29, 2021 - GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and GE Research in partnership with the U.S.

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GE Renewable Energy partners with Governments of Canada and Québec to invest in expansion of Blade facility in Gaspé

July 14, 2021
  • Plant expansion announced today at an event attended by Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and Québec Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Jonatan Julien
  • Investment reinforces company and governments’ commitment to renewable energy and will support the creation of  200 new jobs
  • GE Renewable Energy facility will support production of wind turbine blades needed to serve growing North American wind power industry

Gaspé, Canada, July 14, 2021 – GE Renewable Energy is partnering with the govern

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GE Renewable Energy's LM Wind Power produces 44,444th blade in India

July 07, 2021

Bangalore, India, 7 July 2021 - GE Renewable Energy announced today it has produced its 44,444th wind turbine blade at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade manufacturing sites in India. These blades have been manufactured in the two factories located near Bangalore, Karnataka and in Vadodara, Gujarat.

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Gayatri Rath
Communications, South Asia
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GE Renewable Energy and TNO to test new research on blade tip improvements aimed at reducing levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of offshore wind power

June 23, 2021
  • Project TIADE (Turbine Improvements for Additional Energy) to develop and validate innovative wind turbine blade improvements, blade add-ons to boost the performance of offshore wind turbines.
  • Innovations developed in the project will be tested on a full-scale research wind turbine using inventive field measurement techniques.
  • Prototype turbine operational, measurements to begin soon

Paris, June 23, 2021 – A consortium of GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and TNO, are collaborating on the TIADE project to develop technologies and d

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GE Renewable Energy’s Bergama wind turbine blade manufacturing site produces 1111th blade

June 22, 2021

Istanbul, Turkey, 22 June 2021: GE Renewable Energy today announces the production of the 1111th wind turbine blade at its LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade manufacturing site in Turkey, four years after the start of the production at the new plant in Bergama, İzmir. Devoted to respond to the growing demand for wind energy worldwide, including in Turkey, Europe and Asia, these 1111 blades are meant to capture the wind for a total capacity of about 1.58 GW.

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Chandra Duraiswamy
Director, Communications
LM Wind Power
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Agathe Lefévre de la Houplière
Communications, Hydro Power
GE Vernova
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GE Renewable Energy to hire 300 employees in 2021 for its wind turbine blade factory in Cherbourg, France

March 16, 2021
  • GE Renewable Energy plans to recruit 300 employees in 2021 at its LM Wind Power wind turbine blade factory in Cherbourg, France
  • Opened almost three years ago in April 2018, the factory today counts more than 450 employees
  • Every new hire will go through an intensive training program at the factory's ‘Center of Excellence' to learn wind turbine blade manufacturing processes
  • Site has produced the first offshore wind turbine blade longer than 100 meters, 107-meters long
  • Second 107-meter blade manufacturing mold is being installed at the plant today

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    Agathe Lefévre de la Houplière
    Communications, Hydro Power
    GE Vernova
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GE Renewable Energy recrute 300 employés en 2021 pour son usine de pales d'éoliennes LM Wind Power à Cherbourg, en France

March 16, 2021
  • GE Renewable Energy prévoit de recruter 300 employés dans son usine de fabrication de pales d'éoliennes LM Wind Power à Cherbourg, en France, pour l’année 2021.
  • Ouverte il y a presque trois ans, en avril 2018, l’usine compte aujourd’hui plus de 450 employés.
  • Chaque nouvel employé suivra un programme de formation intensive au « Centre d'excellence » de l'usine pour apprendre les processus de fabrication des pales d'éoliennes.
  • L’usine a produit la première pale d’éolienne en mer à dépasser 100 mètres, d’une longueur de 107 mètres.
  • Un deuxième mou

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    Agathe Lefévre de la Houplière
    Communications, Hydro Power
    GE Vernova
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GE Renewable Energy plans to open new offshore wind blade manufacturing plant in Teesside, United Kingdom

March 10, 2021
  • LM Wind Power plans to open and operate a brand-new manufacturing plant for the production of offshore wind turbine blades, due to open and start production in 2023
  • The manufacturing facility could create 750 direct renewable energy jobs and close to 1,500 indirect jobs in the area
  • The facility would address the needs of the strong offshore wind market in the UK
  • The Dogger Bank Offshore Wind Farm, which features GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind platform, would directly benefit from the blades produced

Paris, March 10, 2021 – G

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GE Awarded DOE Grant to Research 3-D Printing of Wind Turbine Blades

February 05, 2021

NISKAYUNA, NY, February 5, 2021 - GE Research, GE Renewable Energy, and LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business were recently selected by the Department of Energy to res

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GE Vernova
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GE Renewable Energy Announces US Blade Recycling Contract with Veolia

December 08, 2020
  • Agreement involves using wind turbine blades to replace raw material for cement manufacturing – enabling a 27% net reduction in CO₂ emissions from cement production
  • Recycling solution can be deployed quickly and at scale, to maximize benefit to the wind industry
  • First agreement of its kind in the US wind industry

Schenectady, NY, and Boston, MA – December 8, 2020: GE Renewable Energy announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Veolia North America (VNA) to recycle blades removed from its US-based onshore turbines

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Becky Norton
Communications Leader, Electrification Software
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Carrie Griffiths
Veolia North America
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Sandrine Guendoul
Veolia
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