GE Renewable Energy inaugurates new technology centre near New Orleans

• 5 years ago (2018-11-12)
• David Flin

North America 998 Wind 239

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LM Wind Power, a unit of GE Renewable Energy, has announced the inauguration of a new Technology Centre America’s facility to develop and test new techniques for designing and building wind turbine blades at its facility on the NASA Michoud campus outside New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The new facility will provide LM Wind Power’s customers in North America with a local presence to help address their engineering needs.

As part of the expansion of the facility, GE Renewable Energy plans to hire up to 100 additional employees. The company will partner with local universities and community colleges to develop training programmes to ensure that there is a qualified pool of applicants.

Duncan Berry, CEO of LM Wind Power, said: “Innovation is at the heart of our company. Our customers rely on us to push the research envelope to make blades lighter, stronger, and more affordable. This new Technology Centre gives us a local base from which to support our customers in the Americas as well as to partner with world-class researchers from the US Department of Energy and elsewhere in the USA.”

The Technology Centre Americas facility was originally part of Blade Dynamics, which was acquired by GE in 2015, and combined with LM Wind Power earlier this year after LM was acquired by GE Renewable Energy in 2017.