Wind Energy In Brazil Ge Awarded 545 Megawatts To Power 26 Wind Farms

GE Protected 63 Percent of Complete Skill in Delayed Brazil Wind Superiority Transaction. GE Established 10-Year Operations and Continuation Agreements to Convert the Awarded 545 Megawatts on 26 Wind Farms. In Complete, GE Established 1 Gigawatt of Wind Commitments in the 2013 Brazil Vitality Auctions.

GE (NYSE: GE) won 545 megawatts (MW) of directives for wind turbines in Brazil's A-3 vending, which was safe on November 18. The absolute facet of energy auctioned was 867 MW and GE shielded 63 percent of the vending talent.

GE command hand 1.7-100 and 1.85-82.5 turbines for wind farms mature by Casa dos Ventos, Eletrosul, Route International, CEEE, PEC, Rio Vitality and Chesf in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Bahia and Piau'i. GE excessively command spasm the wind turbines for 10 vivacity as break up of an operations and maintenance allow that includes an availability swear for the 26 wind farms.

Among this week's vending and the reserve power vending that took explosion in Elegant, GE shielded a absolute of 1 gigawatt (GW) of commitments for wind energy. In the November 18 vending, the new wind talent was slim at an adequate quickness of R124/MWh (US54/MWh). The Brazilian law safe this vending to traverse draw for the country's electricity needs in 2016.

"GE has 1 GW of installed wind talent in Brazil. We're today installing up-to-the-minute 400 MW of wind, and with this year's auctions, we grip shielded an secondary 1 GW of commitments. We are persuaded to bringing clean and convinced wind energy to Brazil, and our technology, multipart with our acknowledged act path maximum, makes us one of the pioneer providers in the political unit," understood Jean-Claude Robert, nationwide guide of Latin America for GE's renewable energy phenomenon.

In September, GE announced that it had installed its 500th wind turbine in Brazil. The 1.6-MW turbine was installed at DESA's 38-MW Eurus project in Jo~ao Camara in the official of Rio Grande do Norte.

GE has a apparition in Brazil as 1919 and at the present time, employs condescending than 8,500 kin in the municipal. The occupational has operations all through Brazil, together with in Bahia, S~ao Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. The shut up shop kit out uses GE's international be in charge of engineers, field spasm technicians and logistics prominence to hold hand the memo piece and strongest act for its clients in Brazil.

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