GE Renewable Energy installed 53% of US new turbine capacity in a record wind power market in 2020, while holding a firm lead for near-term onshore pipeline projects, according to the latest industry report by the American Clean Power Association (ACPA).

The US OEM’s installations totalled 8.77GW, a 35% market share, with closest rival Vestas accounting for 5.8GW and Siemens Gamesa third with 1.68GW. Nordex came fourth with 451MW, and Goldwind, with 202MW, rounded out the top five.

GE’s 2.82-127 model was the most popular turbine installed last year, accounting for 28% of capacity additions.

Almost all 16.9GW of US installations last year were onshore, with only the 12MW CVOW project off Virginia putting steel in federal waters. The first large-scale offshore wind farm is not expected to be in operation before 2023. US President Joe Biden wants to launch the sector at commercial-scale soon and place it on a robust growth path this decade toward 30GW.

For land-based wind projects in construction and in advanced development at the end of 2021, GE had 8.1GW (31% market share), Vestas 5.3GW (21%), Nordex 2GW (8%) and Siemens Gamesa 908MW (about 3.5%). There were 9.3GW of projects where the developer or owner has not named an OEM.

In the offshore wind space, Siemens Gamesa had 4.37GW (50% market share), more than double GE at 2GW (22%) with another 2.7GW of projects not having disclosed a turbine supplier, according to ACPA’s Fourth Quarter 2020 Market Report.

Since then, New York State selected the Equinor-BP 50-50 joint venture to supply almost 2.5GW of power from two offshore projects in federal waters facing Massachusetts and Long Island. The duo has not named a turbine supplier.

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