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Following its takeover of the energy assets of the French group
Alstom, GE in November 2015 created a global renewable energy
business unit with sales of 9 billion euros ($10.42 billion),
staff of 13,000, and its headquarters in France.
The resulting enlarged unit has built about 25 percent of the
world's installed base of hydropower and more than 20 percent of
global onshore wind capacity, but has virtually no presence in
the capital-intensive offshore business, which GE had always
steered clear of.
"We have the ambition to become one of the three major players
in the offshore wind market," GE renewables head Jerome Pecresse
told reporters in Paris on Tuesday.
He added that it was too soon to discuss a market share target.
Germany's Siemens is European market leader for offshore wind
with 63.5 percent of installed capacity in Europe at the end
2015, followed by MHI Vestas with 18.5 pct.
($1 = 0.8639 euros)
(Reporting by Geert De Clercq; Editing by Andrew Callus)
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