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G.E. Steps Into Europe’s Offshore Wind Market

September 21, 2018

ST.-NAZAIRE, France — At a brightly lit factory near the mouth of France’s Loire River, technicians in hardened black baseball caps gingerly maneuver wind machine tower turrets called nacelles across the floor and then join them to big round generators. Then they roll the assemblies, which weigh hundreds of tons, onto the dock for shipment to a wind farm that General Electric is building off the coast of Germany.

The Loire region, where quaint fishing villages and charming wineries coexist with heavy industry, is central to the ambitions that G.E., the American corporate giant, has to become a force in the offshore wind-power industry, which is dominated by European companies.

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