General Electric lands $491M turbine order

• General Electric (GE +0.3%) has agreed to supply 346 MW of wind turbines worth as much as 1.3B reais ($491M) to the Brazilian renewable-energy developer Casa dos Ventos.
• According to Reinaldo Garcia, GE’s chief executive officer for Latin America,  GE’s turbine factory in Brazil is reaching maximum capacity with the orders.
• Last month, Garcia announced that the company's wind segment was the fastest growing among GE’s business units in 2014.