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Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005

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GE Energy To Supply 33 Wind Turbines For Las Lomillas Project In Spain

By Jack Bryar



GE Energy will supply 33 of its 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for Las Lomillas wind project in Tébar, Spain.

Located in the Castilla-La Mancha region of central Spain, approximately 80 kilometers southwest of Cuenca, the project is owned and being developed by Tébar Eólica, which is a joint partnership equally owned by GENESA (Hidrocantábrico) and Tébar Agrícola. Turnkey services are being provided by Sinae Energía y Medioambiente S.A., a company majority-owned by Hidrocantábrico.

Under the terms of its agreement with Sinae Energía y Medioambiente S.A., GE Energy will install and commission the project’s wind turbines. Under an agreement with Tébar Eólica, GE Energy also will provide operation and maintenance services for five years. Once completed in April 2005, the plant is expected to produce approximately 120 gigawatt hours of electricity annually.

“We are pleased to be working for the first time with Hidrocantábrico, Spain’s fourth largest utility, and supporting their wind energy needs for Las Lomillas project,” said Antonio Casla, general manager for GE Energy’s wind operations in the Iberian Peninsula. “With local manufacturing and support services located in Noblejas, and the global support of GE’s worldwide resources, including GE’s new Customer Support Center and Global Research Center in Germany, our goal is to bring our Spanish customers the highest level of value and support.”

Las Lomillas wind farm supports Spain’s goal to install 13,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity throughout the nation by 2010. The output will be sold by Tébar Eólica in the liberalized market.

GE’s 1.5-megawatt wind turbines are among the world’s most widely sold wind turbines in the multi-megawatt class, with more than 2,500 installations globally.

Spain is the world’s second largest producer of wind power, with a total of 6,420 megawatts of installed wind capacity at the end of 2003. Germany leads the global wind industry with 14,612 installed megawatts, and the United States follows Spain with 6,361 megawatts, according to the European Wind Energy Association’s Wind Force 12 report issued in May of 2004.

Hidrocantábrico was established in 1919 as an electricity output, transportation, conversion and distribution company. Nowadays, Hidrocantábrico is a diversified company being present in other areas of the energy producing scene such as gas and the field of renewable energies, as well as in other strategic businesses such as telecommunications.

GE Energy (www.gepower.com) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of power generation and energy delivery technology, with 2003 revenues of nearly $18.5 billion. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, GE Energy provides equipment, service and management solutions across the power generation, oil and gas, transmission and distribution, distributed power and energy rental industries.

With wind turbine design, manufacturing and/or assembly facilities in Germany, Spain and the United States, GE Energy’s current wind energy portfolio includes wind turbines with rated outputs ranging from 1,500 to 3,600 kilowatts, and support services ranging from project development assistance to operation and maintenance. The company has developed and/or installed more than 6,700 wind turbines with a total capacity exceeding 5,000 megawatts.

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