GE Renewables must pay European wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa $30,000 per megawatt in royalties for patent infringement on a technology used in its next generation 12-MW to 14-MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbines, a federal jury in Boston has ruled.
The judgment, in a suit by the German-Spanish manufacturer, would raise the price of GE’s 14-MW turbine by $420,000 and could add $24 million to the cost of turbines being built for the $2.3-billion, 800-MW Vineyard Wind 1 offshore wind project in Massachusetts—the first in the U.S. at utility scale.