{"id":579676,"date":"2010-05-26T07:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/ge-collaborates-with-leedco-to-give-us-its-first-freshwater-offshore-wind-farm\/"},"modified":"2010-05-26T07:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T11:39:54","slug":"ge-collaborates-with-leedco-to-give-us-its-first-freshwater-offshore-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579676","title":{"rendered":"GE collaborates with LEEDCo to give US its first freshwater offshore wind farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/05\/26\/offshore-wind-farm_9pUdM_24429.jpg\" alt=\"offshore wind farm\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Offshore wind farm uses direct-drive wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>There is no denying that offshore wind power in the Great Lakes holds great potential, so to drive further growth of the industry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gepower.com\/prod_serv\/products\/wind_turbines\/en\/index.htm\">GE<\/a> and the non-profit Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation have come together. The duo has recently announced at the American Wind Energy Association&#8217;s annual WINDPOWER Conference in Dallas that they will jointly develop a wind farm off the shores of Ohio near Cleveland. The project is said to be the first fresh water offshore wind farm in the US.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Under the project, GE will provide and maintain the direct-drive wind turbines for the 20-megawatt offshore wind farm. The success of the project lies in the hands of GE&#8217;s next generation wind turbine, a 4-megawatt machine designed specifically for offshore deployment.<br \/>\nThe wind turbine incorporates GE&#8217;s innovative advanced loads controls and aeroelastically tailored blade technology. The 20-megawatt project that is expected to complete by 2012 will be followed by subsequent projects with a long-term goal of 1,000 megawatts in the Ohio waters of Lake Erie by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2010\/05\/first-freshwater-offshore-wind-farm-planned-lake-erie.php#ch02\">Treehugger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Offshore wind farm uses direct-drive wind turbines. There is no denying that offshore wind power in the Great Lakes holds great potential, so to drive further growth of the industry GE and the non-profit Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation have come together. The duo has recently announced at the American Wind Energy Association&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579676","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}