#badass machines

PhotographerChris New captures a beautiful shot of the full breadth of Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island. While the five GE Haliade turbines tower 600 feet above the water, there’s a lot going on under the surface. Photographer David Doubilet captures a lion’s mane jellyfish gliding underneath a turbine during our #OffshoreBlockParty — one of many marine creatures, native to Block Island, that have begun using the turbines’ steel supports for shelter. Read more about our latest InstaWalk at GE Reports. 

We’ve officially cruised out to our #OffshoreBlockParty — with five photographers— to get a closer look at Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm. 

The farm brings together five impressive GE Haliade wind turbines that are twice as high as the Statue of Liberty, holding a 400-ton power-generating nacelle in each of their towers. The blade tips tower 600 feet above the water, and GE’s innovative gearless permanent magnet generators can each produce 6 megawatts of power. That’s a combination that has the potential to transform the renewables business both in the U.S. and abroad. 

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Photo captured in order by: Jeffrey Milstein, Reuben Wu and Tyson Wheatley