GE moves up from third position in 2011 and replaces long-term number-one Vestas in the top spot.

This is the first time that Vestas has been displaced from the leading position since it claimed the spot from NEG Micon in 2000.

GE benefited from its “dominant” position in the US, where the expected expiry of the Production Tax Credit led to a boom in installations of 13.1GW,