UTC sells Clipper Windpower to US private equity group

US industrial giant United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has sold Clipper Windpower to a private equity group.

UTC says it “has completed the divestiture of its Clipper Windpower unit to Platinum Equity” after announcing in March that it planned to sell the US-based wind turbine business.

The terms of the agreement were not disclosed by UTC, which bought Clipper in 2010 for a reported $430m.

Since then Clipper and its 2.5MW Liberty turbine have struggled to make an impact in a market dominated by pure-wind rivals such as Vestas, and global industrial groups such as GE and Siemens.

It has also shelved its highest-profile initiative, the 10MW Britannia offshore…

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