GE Renewable Energy was a manufacturing and services division of the American company

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. It is headquartered in

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, near

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and focuses on the production of energy systems that use renewable sources. Its products include

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( onshore and offshore),

hydroelectric Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is Electricity generation, electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies 15% of the world's electricity, almost 4,210 TWh in 2023, which is more than all other Renewable energ ...

and solar ( concentrated and

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) power generating facilities. In 2024, GE Renewable Energy and GE Power merged to create GE Vernova, a company completely independent of

, which ceases to exist as a conglomerate (refocusing on aerospace as

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History

GE Renewable Energy was created in 2015, combining the wind power assets GE purchased from

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with those previously owned by GE and operated under the Power & Water division. Upon the division's creation, the headquarters of GE Renewable Energy moved from

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, part of conditions for the Alstom purchase. In 2021 plan to splitting GE into three new public companies: GE Vernova, GE HealthCare and GE Aerospace was announced. GE Renewable Energy, along with GE Digital, GE Power, and GE Energy Financial Services will come together as GE Vernova. In 2023, GE announces planned spin-off date for beginning of second quarter of 2024.

Subdivisions

Wind

GE Wind was formed out of the assets of Enron Wind purchased in 2002, and subsequently expanded with the purchase of ScanWind in 2009. GE Wind expanded into offshore wind energy with the purchase of

's energy generation assets ( GE Offshore Wind, formerly Alstom Wind) in 2015. GE Wind subsidiaries : * GE Vernova's Onshore Wind Business, headquartered in

* GE Offshore Wind, headquartered in

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LM Wind Power LM Wind Power (formerly LM Glasfiber) is a Danish manufacturer of wind turbine blades, and a subsidiary of GE Vernova. History LM Wind Power was founded in 1940, as ''Lunderskov Møbelfabrik'' (Lunderskov furniture factory) in the small town Lun ...

, headquartered in

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Hydro

The GE Renewable Energy Hydro, a sub-division of GE Renewable Energy, is involved in hydroelectricity generation. This includes the design, manufacture, and installation of equipment for both gravity fed and pumped-storage power plants, and as upgrades to existing hydroelectric plants. GE Renewable Energy Hydro has developed aerating turbines designed to increase the amount of oxygen in water passing through the turbines, to benefit the aquatic life downstream. GE Renewable Energy Hydro's headquarters are in

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Grid Solutions

GE Grid Solutions business encompasses the high-voltage power grid equipment and engineering activities of

's former subsidiary, Alstom Grid, which itself was spun off from the transmission business of Areva T&D, a former subsidiary of the French multinational

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. GE Grid Solutions's headquarters are in

References

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* {{General Electric General Electric subsidiaries