GE Wind Energy

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GE Wind Energy GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1980
Seat Salzbergen , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Guido Schumacher, Aleksandar Sekulovic, Peter Gordon Wells
Number of employees 1700
Branch Wind turbine manufacturer
Website www.gerenewableenergy.com/de

Location in Salzbergen
GE 2.75-120 near Sindersdorf

The GE Wind Energy GmbH (short also: GE Wind ), based in Lower Saxony Salzbergen is a manufacturer of wind turbines and a subsidiary of General Electric . It belongs to the GE Renewable Energy division based in Paris , which is one of the world's largest producers of onshore wind turbines. Since the takeover of the energy division from Alstom , offshore systems have also been offered.

history

The wind turbine manufacturer emerged from the former companies Tacke Windtechnik (Germany) and Zond (founded in 1980 in the USA), which were bought by Enron in October 1997 . After Enron went bankrupt , their wind division was taken over by General Electric in June 2002.

Nowadays, around 30 systems are manufactured every week in the German agency in Salzbergen. In addition to the location in Germany, products are also produced in other countries, including the USA and China , and sales to Ireland , Korea , Great Britain , Taiwan , Japan , France , Australia , New Zealand , Denmark , Italy and Mexico .

In 2005, the Energy division achieved worldwide sales of almost 16.5 billion US dollars and built a total of 8500 wind turbines with a total output of 7600  megawatts and employs 740 people in Germany alone and 1700 worldwide.

In 2008 the 10,000. 1.5 MW plant built and erected. In September 2009, the takeover agreement was signed with the Norwegian manufacturer Scanwind to enable GE Wind to enter the offshore market. Scanwind developed gearless systems for offshore operation with a capacity of 3.5 MW.

In 2012, GE Wind ousted the Danish manufacturer Vestas to second place on the world market for onshore wind turbines. The US wind energy market experienced a boom due to the initially expected expiry of the Production Tax Credit . GE Wind was able to assert itself in the home market, installing 96% of its turbines in the USA that year.

In November 2014, the 25,000. Wind power plant, a GE 2.75-103, installed in the Uthlede wind farm in Lower Saxony . The takeover of the Alstom energy division by General Electric took effect on November 2, 2015 . The takeover includes the Haliade turbine type developed by Alstom for offshore use . The ECO system series for onshore use has not been actively marketed since the takeover.

Based on the newly installed capacity of 4960 megawatts , GE Wind was the third largest manufacturer of onshore wind turbines worldwide after Vestas and Goldwind (2017: 4900 MW; 2016: 6500 MW; 2015: 5900 MW; 2014: 4589 MW).

In October 2016, GE acquired the rotor blade manufacturer LM Wind Power for 1.5 billion euros. The company is to remain operationally independent and continue to supply rotor blades for other wind turbine manufacturers. As of November 28, 2017, GE installed more than 35,000 onshore wind turbines in 36 countries with a total output of 60  gigawatts .

Wind turbines on land (onshore)

Source: GE Renewable Energy

5 MW platform

Plant type 4.8-158 5.3-158 5.5-158
Nominal power (kW) 4800 5300 5500
Rotor diameter (m) 158 158 158
Hub height (m) 101-161 101-161 101-161
Blade length (m) 77 77 77

In September 2017, the company presented the GE 4.8-158, a new type of wind turbine for medium to weaker wind locations. The onshore turbine has a rotor diameter of 158 meters and a nominal output of 4.8 MW. The rotor blades were developed by LM Wind Power , are in two parts and are partly made of CFRP . The system is conventionally equipped with a gearbox; a double-fed asynchronous generator is used as the generator. Four hub heights between 101 and 161 meters can be selected. In September 2018, another system was presented on the same platform and also with a rotor diameter of 158 meters, but with a nominal output increased to 5.3 MW.

In February 2019, the prototype of the GE 5.3-158 was put into operation as the first turbine of the series called Cypress in the Wieringermeer wind test field in the Netherlands. GE commissioned the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy Systems to validate the performance of the machine under laboratory conditions . Series production is scheduled to start at the end of 2019. A further increase in output to 5.5 MW followed with the GE 5.5-158.

3 MW platform

GE 3.4-137 with a hub height of 180 m in the natural electricity storage facility in Gaildorf
Plant type 3.2-103 3.2-130 3.4-130 3.4-137 3.6-137 3.8-130
Nominal power (kW) 3200 3200 3400 3400 3600 3800
Rotor diameter (m) 103 130 130 137 137 130
Hub height (m) 70-98 85-134 85-134 110-164.5 110-164.5 85-164.5
Blade length (m) 50.2 63.7 63.7 67.2 67.2 63.7
  • In September 2015, GE presented at the HUSUM WindEnergy the 3.2-130, a turbine designed for medium-wind to low-wind locations . The 3.2-130 has 12% more rotor area and 20% more annual energy yield compared to the GE 2.75-120.
  • The 3.4-130 and 3.4-137 were already presented in November 2015 . Compared to the 2.75-120, GE is forecasting an increase in generation capacity of up to 24% for the 3.4-137.
  • In September 2016, GE presented the 3.6-137 and 3.8-130 as further developments for the European market. GE will supply 179 turbines of the 3.6-137 type for the Markbygden wind farm . 320 Type 3.8-130 turbines with a hub height of 85 m will be installed in 30 wind farms in the region around Aragon on behalf of Forestalia by the end of 2019.

2 MW platform

Two GE 2.75-120 with a hub height of 139 m near Sindersdorf
Plant type 2 MW-116 2 MW-120 2 MW-127 2 MW-132
IEC wind class IIS / IIIS IIIS IIS / IIIS IIS / IIIS
Nominal power (kW) 2000-2700 2500-2750 2200-2800 2500-2700
Rotor diameter (m) 116 120 127 132
Hub height (m) 80-94 85-139 89 130
Blade length (m) 56.9 60 62.2 66
  • The 2.5-120 was officially presented at the beginning of 2013 and again has a 2.5 MW double-fed asynchronous generator (in contrast to a permanent magnet generator in the other systems on the 2.5 MW platform). It is specially designed for low wind locations with an average wind speed of up to 7.5 m / s and is initially to be produced exclusively at the plant in Salzbergen in Lower Saxony. The system can also be equipped with a battery storage system. The storage capacity is around 50  kWh , the converter output of the storage system is 350 kW. According to GE, different operating modes are possible, such as B. the stabilization of production, the provision of control energy and storage of short-term energy not required. The prototype was set up in Schnaittenbach , Bavaria, in late summer 2013 . The platform has experienced an increase in output to 2.75 MW.
  • The 2 MW-127 series was presented in February 2018. In 2019, the 2.7-116 was the first type of wind turbine to receive certification for 40 years of operation. So far, 20 years, sometimes 25 years, have been common.
  • The 2 MW-132 series is used in major projects in India (300 MW in Gujarat for ReNew Power ) and China (715 MW in Puyang for the China Huaneng Group ).

Wind turbines at sea (offshore)

Prototype of the Haliade in the Østerild wind turbine test field
Prototype of the Haliade-X in Maasvlakte 2
Plant type Haliade 150-6MW Haliade-X 12 MW
Series production since 2016 2021
Nominal power (kW) 6000 12,000
Rotor diameter (m) 150 220
Blade length (m) 73.5 107
swept area (m²) 17860 38000
Speed ​​(1 / min) 4-11.5 ?

Haliade has become part of the GE offering through the takeover of Alstom's energy division. The turbine uses a gearless direct drive with a permanent magnet synchronous generator . Five turbines were built in 2016 in the USA's first offshore wind farm, Block Island . 66 turbines of this type are used in the German Merkur offshore wind farm .

In March 2018, GE introduced a new type of offshore turbine called the Haliade-X 12MW . This turbine has a nominal output of 12 MW, a rotor diameter of 220 meters and rotor blades 107 meters long. According to GE , the energy yield at good offshore locations can be up to 67 million kWh per year, with a capacity factor of up to 63%. Compared with the Haliade with 6 MW, the new turbine in a 100 MW wind farm in the German North Sea should save around US $ 26 million. The prototype of the Haliade-X 12MW was built in 2019 in the industrial and port area Maasvlakte 2 , the first series systems are to be manufactured from 2021. The machine houses including the generator are manufactured at the French site in Saint-Nazaire . The rotor blades with the designation LM 107.0 P are produced by LM Wind Power in Cherbourg . Commercial use of the Haliade-X 12MW is planned for the American offshore wind farms Skipjack and Ocean Wind . The type of turbine is also being planned for the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm off the coast of England.

Previous plants (examples)

GE (formerly: Tacke) TW 600a
Plant type application Nominal power (kW) Rotor diameter (m)
Tacke TW 600a onshore 600 46
1.5s onshore 1500 70.5
1.5sl (e) onshore 1500 77
1.5xle onshore 1500 82.5
1.6-82.5 onshore 1600 82.5
1.6-87 onshore 1600 87
1.7-100 onshore 1700 100
1.7-103 onshore 1700 103
1.85-82.5 onshore 1850 82.5
1.85-87 onshore 1850 87
2 MW-107 onshore 2200-2400 107
2.5xl onshore 2500 100
3.6 Offshore offshore 3600 104
4.1-113 offshore 4100 113

16,500 systems of the 1.5sle type were built. 613 systems of the 1.5xle type were built (as of January 2010). In October 2012, the 1000th 2.5xl turbine was installed in the Romanian wind farm Fântânele-Cogealac . In the Vietnamese wind farm Bạc Liêu a total of 62 GE 1.6-82.5 were put into operation by 2015. The turbines were built nearshore .

Seven Type 3.6 Offshore turbines were built in 2003 in the Irish wind farm Arklow Bank (phase 1).

The 4.1-113 is a further development of the Scanwind 3.5 MW platform. The turbine is driven directly by a permanently excited synchronous generator and without a gearbox. The prototype was built in Gothenburg , Sweden , at the end of 2011 . Series production of this type of system was not started, however.

Competitor

Competitors include Vestas , Siemens Gamesa , Enercon , Nordex , Senvion and Goldwind .

Individual evidence

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