Comments on: Early Days of Wind Power — Looking Through a GE Lens http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116956 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116956 had the sense to see where the market was going and use their capital wisely, eh?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116955 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:26:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116955 Interesting, so it all goes back to European companies?! :D

But yeah, i guess that is one thing GE really has to offer — scaling production.

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116954 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:25:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116954 Another one! This is a great site, eh? :D

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116652 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:39:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116652 GE also bought ScanWind in 2009 which gave them a boost in gearless turbine design. That moves them forward in offshore wind.

]]> By: Guest http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116528 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:09:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116528 Wind energy at GE did not go into stealth mode. It just disappeared. When GE started to think about wind energy again they had to buy the knowledge. They did this by buying the Enron wind turbine division in 2002. Before it went bankrupt Enron had bought the German firm Tacke, and used industrial espionage to steal technology from the German firm Enercon. Current GE wind turbines are still based on the old Tacke and Enercon technology. The GE turbines are not very advanced compared to Danish and German turbines, for example the largest GE turbine is 2.5 MW, where the largest European on-shore windturbine is 7MW. However, GE has been very successful in setting up a more automated production line.

]]> By: Achmed A. W. Khammas http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/23/early-days-of-wind-power-looking-through-a-ge-lens/#comment-116494 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36250#comment-116494 History of Windenergy (GE a nd others) … in German, but with a lot of Photos: http://www.buch-der-synergie.de/c_neu_html/c_08_01_windenergie_geschichte.htm

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