Since GE has abandoned plans to develop products for the Great Lakes, Lake Erie Energy Development Company, LEEDCo, has switched suppliers, reports WKSU news portal.
Namely, Siemens will be supplying turbines for the wind energy project in the Lake Erie instead of GE.
Siemens’ wind turbines are smaller than GE’s and are less expensive to install.
Lorry Wagner, president of LEEDCo, said:
“The real challenge is, whatever our costs are gonna be in a first-time project, they’re going to be higher than mature technologies. So we said, ‘We have to make sure we’re on a right track to get absolutely the lowest possible cost for this project.”
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Offshore WIND staff, July 16, 2012; Image: siemens