Friday, December 11, 2009

General Electric invests millions in a wind park

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The group General Electric (GE) is betting on the alternative energies and has obtained a multimillionaire's contract to give the wind turbines and to take charge of the maintenance of a wind park that will turn into the biggest of the United States.

The project handled by the private energy producer Caithness Energy, will include 338 wind turbines with which one hopes to obtain a 845 megawatts installed entire potency (MW) when it is ready to work newly in 2012.

The group told that the wind turbines will settle in a surface of more than 77 kilometers squared in the counties of Gilliam and Morrow de Oregón.

These wind turbines suppose the last evolution of the technology of wind power developed by GE and it provides to our clients the maximum efficiency and energy reliability “, said the president and manager of GE Power and Toilet, Steve Bolze.

GE, who was taking charge of the maintenance and the operations of the wind park during the first ten years of his functioning, also will invest by means of his financial services in a project that has been valued for 2.000 million dollars.

The future wind park takes as a target to improve the energy supply of California, as well as the access of this inhabited area of the coast west of the United States to the renewable energies.

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