GE Energy, FPL Announce Milestone Turbine Shipment

Energy Resource, June 6, 2007

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Calling it a milestone, GE Energy and FPL Energy yesterday announced the shipment of the 1,000th GE 1.5-megawatt wind turbine for an FPL Energy project.

The unit will be among the 267 machines GE is supplying for FPL Energy's Peetz Table Wind Energy Center in Colorado. By year-end 2007 the number of GE wind turbines used in FPL Energy projects will be 1,426.

FPL Energy is the largest U.S. generator of wind power, while GE Energy is the largest U.S. supplier of wind power equipment and services. In 2006, GE provided wind turbines representing more than 45% of the country's new wind capacity.

According to the American Wind Energy Association, FPL Energy continued to lead the U.S. wind industry with the construction of 777 megawatts of new wind projects in 2006, about one third of all new U.S. installations that year. In total, FPL Energy owns 4,015 megawatts of wind energy installations.

Overall, GE Energy has shipped more than 6,000 of its 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for projects worldwide.

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