Chinese JV orders 3 Haliade offshore wind turbines – Renewables Now (subscription)

March 29 (Renewables Now) - GE Renewable Energy will be supplying three offshore wind turbines of the Haliade 150-6MW model for a demonstration project in China, the General Electric (NYSE:GE) unit said Monday.

Fuqing Haixia Electricity Generation Co, a joint venture (JV) between China Three Gorges Corp and Fujian Energy, will build the 73-MW Fujian Xinghua Gulf offshore wind farm using turbines by several suppliers. The deal for GE includes technical support and two years of operation and maintenance (O&M).

The US company said it will manufacture the three nacelles and generators at its Offshore Wind facility in Saint-Nazaire, France, while the blades will be made in Denmark. Towers for the wind turbines will be produced in Chengxi, China.

Installation is to take place in the closing quarter of 2017.

The Haliade turbine has been developed by French Alstom, the power and grid businesses of which were bought by GE in 2015. The US conglomerate recently got the European Commissions (EC) approval to also buy Danish wind turbine blade maker LM Wind Power. The latter is expanding its capacity after a deal to supply blades to the Haliade platform.

China ranked third in terms of total installed offshore wind capacity at the end of 2016 after adding 592 MW in the year. Chinese offshore market began what many hope is the sectors long awaited take-off in 2016, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) said when releasing statistics for the past year.

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