North American Windpower: Gamesa Renames Entire Wind Turbine Product Line

Gamesa Renames Entire Wind Turbine Product Line

by NAW Staff on Wednesday 05 September 2012

Gamesa has renamed all of its onshore and offshore wind turbine platforms.

Effective immediately, the company's turbine families and all new platforms will bear the Gamesa brand name and indicate nameplate capacity: Gamesa 850 kW, Gamesa 2.0 MW, Gamesa 4.5 MW and Gamesa 5.0 MW offshore.

The names of the turbine models within each family will remain unchanged and will continue to be labeled by rotor size and nominal capacity, the company notes.

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