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13 April 2007 –GE Energy said it provided wind turbines representing over 45 percent of the country's new wind capacity in 2006.
In a news release, it said the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) reported that U.S. wind power generating capacity increased by 27 percent in 2006 and is expected to increase an additional 26 percent in 2007. The U.S. wind industry installed more than 2.4 GW of new wind capacity during the year. GE supplied 764 of its 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for U.S. projects in 2006.
GE entered the wind business in 2002. The company says it is the largest U.S. supplier of wind turbines and among the largest in the world, with wind turbine manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, Germany, Spain and China.
At the end of 2006, the U.S. wind industry received an extension of the federal production tax credit, which provides financial support for wind farm development.
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