General Electric to trial world’s largest wind turbine in Britain

U.S. conglomerate General Electricwill test the world's largest wind turbine in a facility in northeast England, it said on Tuesday.GE Renewable Energy, the renewable arm of the U.S. firm, and the British government-funded Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult signed a five-year agreement to test GE's Haliade-X 12 megawatt (MW) turbine in Blyth, Northumberland."This is an important agreement because it will enable us to prove Haliade-X in a faster way by putting it under controlled and extreme cond