GE delivers up to 20% increase in profit per turbine

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GE has achieved a major milestone by increasing the output of the wind farms delivering up to 20 percent increase in profit per turbine.

The company has implemented PowerUp, a customized software -enabled platform that will increase a wind farm’s output by up to 5 percent taking into account environmental conditions.

For an average U.S. wind farm operator using GE’s 1.5-77 turbine, a 5 percent increase in energy output translates to up to a 20 percent increase in profit per turbine, according to GE.

When PowerUp is activated, a GE software program performs a complete before-and-after wind farm power performance analysis, validating the performance improvement.

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By adjusting performance dials that include speed, torque, pitch, aerodynamics and turbine controls, PowerUp seeks to maximize the power output of a wind farm.

PowerUp is part of GE’s Brilliant wind platform, which harnesses the power of the Industrial Internet to analyze tens of thousands of data points on a wind farm every second, driving higher power output and creating new revenue streams for customers.

PowerUp is available for turbine models across GE’s installed base.

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