{"id":528329,"date":"2010-04-15T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2010-04-15T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T12:13:14","slug":"ge-to-build-offshore-wind-turbine-plant-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/528329","title":{"rendered":"GE to build offshore wind turbine plant in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/25\/general-electric-uk-wind\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2010\/1\/13\/1263383639173\/Offshore-wind-farm-001.jpg\" width=\"350\" align=\"left\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/03\/26\/11\/\" >ClimateWire<\/a>: General Electric Co. has announced plans for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Wind_Energy-_Offshore_Permitting\">offshore wind turbine<\/a>  manufacturing plant in Britain, filling that country&#8217;s perceived need  for a presence in the wind turbine industry.<\/p>\n<p>The company will invest about $1.5 million in the plant, which will  be built in a location to be determined later. It is part of a larger  competition to develop port facilities for offshore wind.<\/p>\n<p>Britain&#8217;s high sea winds make it an ideal place for wind energy, but  the country&#8217;s last significant turbine manufacturing plant, operated by  Vestas, closed. The government is hoping that the GE plant will help  meet its commitments to cut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Greenhouse_gas\">greenhouse gases<\/a>, as well as enhance the  clean energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>GE said the project will be part of a $454 million investment into  Europe&#8217;s wind energy industry over the next decade. It also plans to  build at sites in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_Norway\">Norway<\/a>, Sweden and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_Germany\">Germany<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe offshore wind has a bright future,&#8221; said GE&#8217;s U.K.  managing director, Magued Eldaief. &#8220;These investments will position us  to help develop Europe&#8217;s vast, untapped offshore wind resources&#8221; (Damian  Carrington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/mar\/25\/general-electric-uk-wind\" >London  <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, March 25). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3289&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3289\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateWire: General Electric Co. has announced plans for an offshore wind turbine manufacturing plant in Britain, filling that country&#8217;s perceived need for a presence in the wind turbine industry. The company will invest about $1.5 million in the plant, which will be built in a location to be determined later. It is part of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}