General Electric Developing Wind Turbine with Capacity of 15 Megawatts

General Electric Co. (GE), the world’s biggest maker of electricity-generation equipment, plans to develop a wind turbine that generates as much as six times more power than its largest land-based model.

GE Global Research plans to spend $3 million from the U.S. Energy Department to design a direct-drive wind turbine that will generate as much as 15 megawatts using superconducting magnets and lightweight materials, Fairfield, Connecticut-based GE said today in a statement.

GE will decide how to build and commercialize the turbines in a second phase of the two-year project.

The company currently offers 1.5-megawatt and 2.5-megawatt wind turbines for onshore wind farms and a 4-megawatt model for offshore projects, according to its website.

To contact the reporter on this story: Christopher Martin in New York at cmartin11@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reed Landberg at landberg@bloomberg.net

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