GE Energy ships 10,000th 1.5 MW wind turbine

NORTH DAKOTA - GE Energy, a supplier of power generation and energy delivery technologies and a business division of General Electric Company, announced the shipment of the company's 10,000th 1.5-megawatt wind turbine.

The milestone 10,000th unit was shipped to FPL Energy, a generator of wind power, for the Ashtabula Wind Energy Centre located in North Dakota.

GE said that, during the past ten years, its 1.5-megawatt machines have been installed in 19 countries and have accumulated over 130 million operating hours, producing over 78,000 gigawatt-hours of cleaner, wind-generated electricity.

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