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.
The
4.1-113
builds
on
a
3.5MW
direct-drive
offshore
turbine
design,
it
adds,
and
benefits
from
the…