This week, GE announced that it will be providing the turbines that will be used for the offshore wind farm, which will be located on Lake Erie off the coast of Northern Ohio, close to Cleveland.
The wind project is being developed by the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo), and will start off generating 20 megawatts of electricity with five turbines, each of which can generate up to 4 megawatts. GE noted that these are currently the largest turbines that it offers.
According to GE, this project could continue to expand dramatically in the coming years. The initial phase of the project is expected to be producing energy by 2012, and by 2020, turbines could be generating as much as 1,000 megawatts on Lake Erie.
A number of utility scale wind and solar energy projects are coming online around the country. Earlier this year, another major wind project received federal approval after a decade-long legal battle that is expected to result in turbines generating clean energy off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
