GE Renewable Energy, a unit of General Electric, told a federal court on Oct. 18 that it has modified its design of the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine rotor that does not infringe on a patent owned by Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, its German-Spanish manufacturing rival in the U.S. offshore wind energy marketplace.
GE asked the U.S. district court in Boston to modify a permanent injunction, issued Sept. 7, which bars the U.S. firm from selling the 12-MW to 14-MW megaturbine in the American market, except for exemptions granted for the Vineyard Wind 1 project off Massachusetts and the Ocean Wind project off southern New Jersey.