GE Renewable Energy selected for 300 MW wind farm in India

• 5 years ago (2018-12-20)
• David Flin

Asia 892 Wind 257

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GE Renewable Energy has announced that it has been selected by ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy IPP, to provide 120 GE 2.5-132 turbines for the Gadhsisa Wind Farm in Gujarat, India. The wind farm will have a total installed capacity of 300 MW. This will make it the largest full turnkey EPC project by GE Renewable Energy in India.

GE will also maintain the facility, which is due to be commissioned progressively by the end of 2019, for a period of ten years. GE India currently manufactures its wind turbines for the India market at the multi-modal manufacturing facility in Pune.

ReNew Power successfully bid for this project in the third round of auctions conducted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) in February 2018.

The 2.5-132 turbines have been designed primarily at GE’s Technology Centre in Bangalore. This turbine is a significant improvement over the previous version, with improved rotor diameter, wind capture, and 30 per cent more Annual Energy Production (AEP) than GE’s 2.3-116 wind turbine.

GE currently has turbines across 37 wind farms in India, with 1.8 GW of capacity across the country. GE said that it is continuing to drive innovations specific to the region, and that it recently introduced its 2.7 MW low speed wind machine turbine, which included the largest rotor ever installed in India currently being tested in Gujarat.