Building on a commitment to provide enhanced levels of responsiveness and support for customers in Australia, power conversion specialist Converteam, a GE Energy (NYSE: GE) business, today celebrated the opening of its new commercial and technical support office in Sydney.

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科孚德今天宣布与通用电气（GE）签订一项协议，科孚德全体股东将依据该协议把股份转售给GE。

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Converteam has recently signed a contract with China State Shipbuilding Corporation No. 9 Institute (CSSC No. 9 Institute), one of the largest shipbuilding conglomerates in China, to supply one set of ProCrane drive solution for Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding’s 600T Goliath Crane.

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The Converteam and Rolls-Royce consortium has been awarded a contract from STX Europe to supply Mermaid podded electric propulsion systems for EUROPA 2, Hapag-Lloyd Cruises new luxury cruise ship

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Power conversion and electrical engineering specialist Converteam has been awarded a circa €6 million contract by Indian shipyard Tebma for major elements of electrical equipment and control systems for two geotechnical vessels currently under construction in India

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Power conversion specialist Converteam has been selected as the supplier of Integrated Power Systems (IPS) to the U.S. Navy with the award of an additional multi-million dollar contract to design and supply the complete electric power, propulsion and vessel automation system for the Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) program. The MLP program adds to Converteam’s market leadership experience with the U.S. Navy’s IPS fleet, which includes DDG 1000, T-AKE, LHD 8 and LHA 6.

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Converteam in partnership with the U.S. Navy have successfully tested the DDG 1000’s high voltage Integrated Power System (IPS)(1) to full power at the Land Based Test Site located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Rugby, August 24, 2011 - Converteam has announced its readiness to commence manufacture of its variable frequency drilling drives and medium voltage switchboards at its production facility in Betim close to Belo Horizonte in Brazil.
Preparations, which have been ongoing over a period of several months, have necessitated long term knowledge sharing between Converteam’s UK drilling equipment specialists and their Brazilian counterparts.

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Converteam has been selected by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) as designer and supplier of high efficiency electrical systems for three newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships for Noble Corporation, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors.

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Converteam has been commissioned by Chipeta Processing LLC to supply a complete Variable Speed Drive System (VSDS) to control two natural gas compressor trains at the Chipeta Processing Plant in Utah (USA). This system will save an estimated $2 million per year in energy costs.

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Converteam was awarded a new contract for nine Variable Speed Drives Systems with PetroChina for the emblematic West-East Gas Pipeline Project (WEPP) which is one of the biggest infrastructure projects in China. With this new contract, Converteam reinforces its presence in the Chinese Oil & Gas market.

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Converteam has announced that it has successfully completed static testing of essential elements of its HYDROGENIE generator, thought to be the world’s first HTS hydro generator to be installed at the Hirschaid run-of-river hydroelectric power plant in Bavaria, Germany

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Less than eighteen months after entering the solar photovoltaic (PV) market, Converteam is pleased to announce it has reached 100MWp cumulated orders of its inverter solutions dedicated to the utility-scale solar PV farm market. These orders were awarded in Germany, France (including French overseas departments and territories), the United Kingdom and Italy with the largest project being a 12MWp farm in Sietzsch (with Green Energy 3000 GmbH), which is one of the major photovoltaic installations in Germany. Within just 90 days, 52,200 PV modules were installed on the 33-hectare site in Germany's federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and electrically connected to the grid using 21 Converteam inverters gathered in eight power stations.

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Converteam is to present a new generation of photovoltaic (PV) inverters at the Intersolar 2011 (hall B4, booth B4.370) in Munich, Germany. The new inverter works with a DC input voltage of up to 1,500V (DC) offering higher efficiency under partial load conditions and higher power. This results in significant cost savings for the infrastructure of photovoltaic power plants.

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Converteam has been selected by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) as designer and supplier of high efficiency electrical systems for three newbuild ultra-deepwater drillships for Noble Corporation, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors.

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Converteam has been selected to supply its leading power train solution to China’s Envision Energy for its latest 3.6MW offshore wind turbine known as GC-1.
In a separate deal Envision has contracted for a further 350 of Converteam’s modular 1.5MW ProWind power converters in support of its wind turbine production in China.

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