GE Renewable Energy testing blade for new 12-MW turbine

GE Renewable Energy and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) announced the arrival of a blade that is part of the most powerful offshore wind turbine in the industry at MassCEC’s Wind Technology Testing Center (WTTC) in Boston. The 107-meter blade will undergo a series of fatigue tests that involve moving it millions of times over the period of a few months to validate that it can withstand more than 25 years of operation at sea. The testing is part of the process of commercializing GE’s Haliade-X 12-MW turbine — the most powerful in the industry — by 2021, strengthening the company’s ability to compete in a market steadily gaining momentum in the United States and globally. “This has really been a collaborative effort on the part of the company to be part of solving the challenges associated with the energy transition,” said GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp, Jr.