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GE Renewable Energy unveils the first Haliade-X 12 MW, the world's most powerful offshore wind turbine

July 22, 2019

Saint-Nazaire, 22 July 2019 – Today, 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 new offshore wind turbine boasts unparalleled dimensions and the use of advanced technologies.

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Tim Brown
GE Vernova
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GE Renewable Energy dévoile la première turbine de l’Haliade-X 12 MW, nouvelle éolienne en mer la plus puissante au monde

July 22, 2019

Saint-Nazaire, le 22 juillet 2019 – GE Renewable Energy a dévoilé aujourd’hui, sur son site de production de Saint-Nazaire (France), la première turbine de l’éolienne en mer, l’Haliade-X 12 MW. La production de cette nouvelle turbine, aux dimensions inédites et à la technologie de pointe, a été entièrement assurée depuis la France, sur le site de GE à Saint-Nazaire.

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Santiago Chacon
Offshore Wind, Communications Leader
GE Renewable Energy
+33 7 79 46 93 46
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Sebastien Duchamp
Communications Director
GE Renewable Energy
+33 6 73 19 59 64
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World's biggest offshore wind turbine heading to the UK for testing

June 25, 2019
  • GE's Haliade-X 12 MW nacelle and 107-meter long blade will be shipped to the UK as part of an advanced technology testing program
  • Both components will be tested at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult's site in Blyth
  • GE is investing close to £15 million in R&D and testing activities for Haliade-X

London, June 25th 2019 – GE Renewable Energy has confirmed that the Haliade-X 12 MW nacelle and 107-metre long blade will be shipped to the UK as part of an advanced technology testing program that will focus on enhancing t

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Renewables

Extreme Measures: At 107 Meters, The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Blade Is Longer Than A Football Field. Here’s What It Looks Like

Tomas Kellner
April 18, 2019

How long is the world’s largest wind turbine blade? Stretching 107 meters, the blade is longer than a football field and equal to 1.4 times the length of a Boeing 747. Using a different measure, it would take Usain Bolt, the fastest human and a world record holder in the 100-meter dash, close to 10 seconds to race from its root to its tip. It might also represent one of the largest single machine components ever built. Workers just popped the first one from its mold at an LM Wind Power factory in Cherbourg, France.

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GE's Haliade-X 12 MW prototype to be installed in Rotterdam

January 16, 2019
  • Agreement signed with Future Wind includes five years of testing and 15 years of service
  • Installation of Haliade-X 12 MW will take place during summer 2019

Rotterdam, January 16th 2019 - GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind (a Joint Venture between Pondera Development and SIF Holding Netherlands) announced today that they have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12 MW wind turbine prototype in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam (NL) during summer

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Renewable energy

Switch It Up: This Tech Helps Take The World's Largest Offshore Wind Turbine To A New Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 25, 2018
The Haliade-X turbine has the potential to blow the offshore wind industry to the next level.
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Offshore Wind

Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These massive structures rise 10 meters from the ground and shelter the generator and other parts for GE’s Haliade offshore wind turbines from the elements.
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Renewable energy

New Power Generation: Why America’s Largest Electric Utility Is Adding Renewables To Its Energy Mix

June 28, 2018
Electric power was still a luxury few could afford when American industrialist James Buchanan Duke and his partners decided to build a clever system of lakes and dams on the Catawba River, which runs through the Carolinas. Their first power station, which came online in 1904, used the river’s bottled-up energy to generate a meager 6,600 kilowatts.
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EMF Offshore Wind - Statement

June 20, 2018

GE welcomes the confirmation of the three Eolien Maritime Français offshore windfarms paving the way for a buoyant offshore wind industry, which carries considerable potential for economic growth, job creation and high-tech innovation in France. These three offshore windfarms, located in Fécamp, Courseulles and Saint-Nazaire will lead to new job creation in France required to build and deliver GE’s Haliade 150-6MW wind turbines.

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Blade Runners: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades

Tomas Kellner
June 11, 2018
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating back to the Stone Age. With rich images depicting archers hunting stags, boars and bears, as well as other scenes, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage site and have survived for millennia thanks to the area’s hot and dry weather — the same conditions that lured the world’s largest maker of blades for wind turbines to the area.
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