GE Renewable Energy has received an order from the EDF-SITAC joint venture to supply and install 112 of its 2.7 MW wind turbines with 132-meter rotor at the Sitac Kabini wind farm in Gujarat, India.
The 112 units will be installed and commissioned over the next year and will produce enough green energy to meet the annual electricity requirements of more than 1.3 million people in the country.
EDF Renewables and the Sitac Group previously announced they have secured a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement for the wind farm through a competitive bidding process with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a public sector company under the administrative control of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
The 300 MW of Sitac Kabini will also contribute to helping the government of Gujarat reach its Renewable Power Obligations (RPO) to bring the percentage of renewable sources to 17% of its installed capacity by 2021, versus 10% today.
GE’s 2.7-132 turbine is ideally suited for Gujarat’s wind speed regime. The turbine has been designed primarily at GE's Technology Centre in Bangalore and is built on learnings from more than 22,000 GE wind turbines around the world.
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