While it is clear that Vestas has paid GE an unspecified amount of cash to close down the patent legal action due to come before a US court this summer, it is unlikely to be of the size that will make any difference to either company’s finances. What GE has done is try to protect its home market by drumming up an insignificant patent, which it almost certainly would never have been awarded in any other country other than the US. The patent relates to keeping a wind turbine attached to the grid when a power surge or low voltage dip happens. Both companies clearly had applied for very similar patents – one in the US and the other in…