The new model will come with a 103-metre rotor, compared to the 82.5-metre rotor that is standard with the 1.6MW machine, significantly improving project economics.

GE -- which opened a nacelle factory in Pune in 2011, its first-ever manufacturing plant in India -- also sells a 1.6-82.5 model in the country.

The 1.7-103 model “underscores [GE’s] effort to provide localised solutions to India,” says Banmali Agrawal, chief executive of GE South Asia, and reflects GE's “evolutionary” approach to improving its turbines.

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