GE increased engineering and support for the Wind Division and doubled its annual sales to $1.2B in 2003.

By acquiring Zond, GE gained a very important patent for variable-speed systems (US 5083039 ),[4][5] which had a major impact on the North American market.

GE acquired LM Wind Power from Doughty Hanson & Co for an enterprise value of €1.5 billion in April 2017.

The angle of the blades and the direction that the turbine faces are controlled by an active, all- electric pitch and yaw system.

The next evolution, the 2.5XL, used a permanent magnet generator, and its entire output was converted to AC at mains frequency.

[25] The offshore GE 3.6 SL model was installed in 2003 at the Arklow Bank Wind Park in Ireland.

[29] The offshore GE 3.6 SL model was installed at the Arklow Bank Wind Park.

[30] In April 2018, General Electric announced that it will begin testing the world's largest wind turbine – the Haliade-X – at its facilities in Blyth, England.

[33] Plans in September 2020 called for a new upgraded version of 13 MW GE Haliade-X turbine to be installed at Dogger Bank Wind Farm by 2023,[34][35][36] and DNV-certified in late 2022.