China's Longyuan selects GE for first overseas wind project

China's largest wind developer, Longyuan, is purchasing nearly 100MW of General Electric turbines for a project in Ontario, its first outside of China.

The supply agreement caps a string of wind deals totaling 650MW in the Canadian province announced by the US industrial giant this month.

GE says it will supply Longyuan Canada Renewables, a unit of state-owned utility China Guodian, with 31 1.6MW turbines and 18 2.75MW machines for the Dufferin Wind Farm in Melanchthon County, a hot bed of wind development in the province. The smaller machines will be outfitted with 100-metre-diameter rotors, optimised for low-wind sites. Targeted for operations in 2014, it will be the first deployment of the technology in Ontario.

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