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Global Agreement for GE Energy to provide EDP wind turbines

Submitted by: John Warner on Sep 28, 2007 at 1:01 pm Tagged with: Next Energy Source:

Original at http://www.edp.pt/EDPI/Internet/PT/Group/Media/EDPNews/2007/Acordo_com_a...

Translated from Portuguese by Google.

The EDP celebrated with, GE Energy, a global agreement for its area of renewed, to supply them wind turbines with a total capacity of 500 megawatts wind projects that will be developed by the EDP, in 2008 and 2009, in the Europe and the United States.

Protected from this agreement, GE will go to supply to the Neo Energy, the subsidiary European of renewed them of the EDP, 80 wind turbines 2.5xl for new wind projects in the Europe and 201 wind turbines of 1,5 mW to the Horizon Wind Energy, the subsidiary American of the EDP, for projectos in the United States, places still for determining.

“In the United States and the whole world, we continue to attend a strong interest for the production of clean electricidade, of wind origin”, affirmed Victor Abates, Vice-president of Renováveis of GE Energy. Only in the United States, they had been installed, in 2006, more than 2,400 megawatts of winf energy, while the world-wide level megawatts had been installed 15,000 more than, in accordance with the Global Advice of Energia Eólica (GWEC).

According to exactly responsible of GE, “the EDP is pledged in expanding its wallet of wind projects to help to give reply to the increasing global search, and is very satisfied for our technology to have been chosen to support this effort”.

Of the side of the EDP, according to Executive chairman of the board of Administration, António Mexia, “this agreement with GE very is well received, a time that almost complete the necessity of the EDP of aerogeradores up to 2009 (more than 90%), what it is particularly important in terms of credibility in the execution of pipeline of the EDP, due to present disparity enters offers and looks for in the market of aerogeradores”. António Mexia strengthens that “the EDP promised to the market that would go to be successful and this is an important step to reach the objectivos announced in terms of MW/ano bred”.

The European component of the agreement represents the biggest supply of wind turbines 2.5xl of GE until the o moment. Presented in the passed year, 2.5xl is the biggest wind turbine of GE for applications in land and is conceived to satisfy the requirements immediate of the European Union, where the available land lack limits the dimension of the projectos.