GE Energy’s first wind turbine generators turned out in VN

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The first wind turbine generators rolled off the assembly line owned by GE Energy on May 10 at its factory in Nomura-Hai Phong Industrial Park in the northern city of Hai Phong.
After a year of construction the factory is now ready for producing turbines generators for export.

The US$61 million plant, which is expected to create 500 jobs for local people, will export GE Energy’s turbines and services around the world.

The Hai Phong facility will provide an installation, maintenance and repair service for the components it produces.

GE Energy is a subsidiary of the global infrastructure, finance and media company General Electric, which employs more than 300,000 people worldwide.

Since 1960, GE Energy has provided technical support for a number of power generation projects in Vietnam.

Under a draft national power development strategy, currently being considered by the government, renewable energies will account for 5 per cent of the nation’s energy output by 2020, with wind and solar power accounting for half of all renewable energies.

A recent survey shows that 8.6 per cent of Vietnam’s land mass is suitable for generating power from the wind.