GE Renewable Energy has received an order from JSW Energy to supply 810 mw of onshore wind turbines for their upcoming wind farms in Tamil Nadu.
JSW Energy is currently implementing around 2 GW of wind farms in India and has chosen GE to supply the wind turbines for 810 MW of these projects while JSW will use its construction expertise to develop the wind farms, a release from GE Renewable Energy said.
GE will also develop customized solutions and trainings to enable JSW teams gain operation and maintenance expertise to operate the wind turbines in the long-term.
The supply of the turbines will start by the second quarter of 2022 and be completed by the first quarter of 2023.
Proud to partner with GE
Prashant Jain, Joint Managing Director and CEO of JSW Energy, said: “We are proud to partner with GE, a high-tech industrial company, to contribute to India’s renewable energy goals. Our company has set a target to reach 20 GW of power generation capacity by 2030, by when the share of green and renewable energy projects will increase to 85 per cent of the total portfolio. The under-construction project is our first large scale wind power project. We look forward to working with GE to achieve our energy transition and growth targets.”
Blades by LM Wind Power
JSW Energy selected GE’s 2.7-mw model assembled at GE Renewable Energy’s multi-modal site in Pune. Blades will be provided by LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business, from its factory in Halol, Gujarat. This turbine was designed primarily at GE’s Technology Centre in Bangalore and is ideally suited for Tamil Nadu’s wind speed regime.
Unique partnership
According to Sheri Hickok, CEO of GE Renewable Energy’s Onshore Wind International business, said: “We are extremely honored to have been selected by JSW Energy for this amazing project. It will be a unique partnership where both the companies will leverage their respective strengths to deliver competitive levelized cost of energy. Together, we are aiming at enabling the energy transition in India, helping the country to achieve its renewable energy targets.”
LM Wind Power: A GE business
GE completed the global acquisition of LM Wind Power in April 2017. It had then announced that LM Wind Power will be run as an individual operating unit within GE Renewable Energy, providing blades for both GE’s onshore and offshore wind business units. LM Wind Power will also continue to supply blades to the rest of the wind industry, GE had then stated.
(Featured photograph, sourced from GE Renewable Energy, shows a GE 2.7-mw wind turbine under construction, at a project site.)
Editor’s Note: Very recently, Senvion India was also named supplier by JSW Energy for the supply of wind turbines.
