The joint venture, in which Harbin will have a 51% stake to GE’s 49%, will build GE-designed wind turbines for the offshore markets. The companies are also linking up for onshore turbine manufacturing.
GE’s move is the latest bid by a major foreign wind manufacturer to increase capacity in China. Earlier this month, Gamesa pledged to invest €90m ($116.8m) through 2012 to boost production capacity to 1.5GW
