GE 4MW direct-drive turbine coming to Gothenburg port

The new 4.1-113 turbine, introduced at the European Wind Energy Association’s EWEA 2011 event in Brussels, would be supplied to Göteborg Energi.

GE, a top global supplier of onshore wind turbines, leapt into the offshore space with the acquisition in 2009 of Norway’s ScanWind, a developer of direct-drive turbines.

GE says the new turbine is based upon a design tested in a 13-unit array operating off the Norwegian coast since 2005.