GE-backed Southwest Windpower, a US-based renewable energy provider, acquires partner Deerpath Energy.

Southwest Windpower, a US-based renewable energy provider backed by strategic investors, has acquired Deerpath Energy, a provider of wind turbines siting software. No financial terms were disclosed, although the two groups had been strategic partners since 2007.

Last August, Windpower raised an undisclosed sum to help it expand outside of the US and it subsequently hired Kate Sizer to head up its European operations from Germany.

This last round of funding was provided by US-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric’s…