The DWF, which will be based around the US company's 2MW "brilliant" turbine platform, knits together hardware, smart sensors and its efficiency-boosting PowerUP software, to increase efficiency and integration of wind farms and the grid.

GE calculates the global wind power industry could add $50bn in "extra value" if all 50GW of new capacity being being built this year were outfitted with the technology.

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