Introducing the world’s first Digital Wind Farm
The Digital Wind Farm combines GE’s modular 2MW turbine platform and our robust digital infrastructure that connects those farms to the Industrial Internet. It starts with the build. Instead of building the entire farm with a single model, you can take advantage of GE’s new family of modular turbines, which are individually customizable, giving you up to 10% higher annual energy output immediately.
Once built, every turbine is connected to a digital infrastructure enabled by Predix*, the secure software platform for the Industrial Internet. Because each turbine was previously defined in the software, every single turbine now has a digital twin. Just as the physical turbine is planted, a virtual copy of itself starts reacting to real-world conditions and calculates course corrections when those conditions change. It operates in the cloud, connecting the turbines virtually.
This groundbreaking digital infrastructure heralds the next evolution of the wind industry. Our vision is that every turbine, every farm, and every fleet performs better than the day before. With the launch of the Digital Wind Farm, GE is now able to deliver the world’s most efficient wind farm—providing up to 20% more energy capacity than the previous generation.