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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: What? Why? And ASEAN

October 13, 2015

South East Asia countries map on a globe
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) has been ten years in development and is so shrouded in the tightly wound cogs of national secrecy that it’s acquired an almost legendary aura of mystery.

The deal took a major step forward this week with the signing of a TPPA agreement in Atlanta, USA. But with the full terms yet to be revealed, what do we really know about the TPPA? And what does it mean for ASEAN?

 

What is it?

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Industrial Internet

Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent More Efficient

September 27, 2015
Few people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to power a set of batteries in his basement. Although by today’s standards the huge, 60-foot machine was massively inefficient, it started a new industry that pushed generations of engineers to make it better. Now GE has decided to go further and improve on the entire wind farm in one fell swoop.
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Renewables

Buzzy Bees: Wind Turbine Drone Inspectors Will Grow Into a $6 Billion Market in the Next Decade

September 18, 2015
 
Maintaining wind turbines is a critical but time-consuming business. Dedicated technicians must gather their gear, rope up and climb hundreds of feet above firm ground to inspect turbine blades and nacelles. “It’s a workout,” said Mike Bowman, an ultra-marathoner who leads sustainable energy projects at GE Global Research, after he climbed the 300-foot tower of GE’s new Ecorotr wind turbine in Tehachapi, Cal.
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Rise and Shine: This Diamond-like Material is Helping Solar Power Cast a Bigger Shadow

July 28, 2015
The energy usage curves of most industrial countries – or load curves - have long resembled a crumpled fedora hat. They rise sharply at daybreak as people start brewing coffee and companies switch on machines, then peak twice – in the morning and the late afternoon, before dropping off after dinner. Utilities usually crank up their turbines and bring extra power plants online to cover the “peak” demand.
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Eyes in the Sky: #DRONEWEEK Will Beam Aerial Footage From GE’s Boot Camp for Jet Engines on Periscope

July 17, 2015
Before a new GE machine design gets cleared for production, it has to go through rigorous testing and endure conditions it will likely never see in service – from golf ball-size hail to exploding jet engine fan blades. In the U.S., the company’s testing facilities are sometimes located in remote corners of the country and even employees rarely see more than a couple.
But that’s about to change. Starting Monday, GE will use drones to beam footage from five testing sites and factories to everyone with the Periscope app on its channel @generalelectric.
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How Does a Wind Turbine Work? With GE’s New ecoROTR, Better than Ever

June 10, 2015
The hillsides around Tehachapi, a brown and blustery town on the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, are bristling with a forest of wind turbines of all makes and sizes.
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Das Hybrid-Kraftwerk: Power Plant Mixing Gas, Solar, Batteries and Software Could Chart the Future of Renewable Power

May 13, 2015
From Japan’s offshore solar plants to a tidal lagoon in Wales, countries around the world have found clever ways to tap renewable power. But nowhere is the need for ingenuity more in demand than in Germany, which aims to produce 80 percent of electricity from renewables by 2050, up from 30 percent now.
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Nabil Habayeb: Powering Egypt's New Era of Growth

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Nabil Habayeb, Senior Vice President GE, President & CEO, GE International Markets At GE
March 13, 2015

Even oil-rich nations need an energy boost. GE is working to provide one for Egypt.

 

Delivering power where it matters and when it matters has been a major challenge for policy makers across the world. Electricity fuels life and growth, and with the population continuing to increase around the globe, the demand for reliable and assured power supply is growing as well, often at exponential rates.

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Power to the People! It’s Boom Time for Distributed Power

December 26, 2014
A whisky distillery in Scotland uses mash residue to power its factory and produce steam for distilling while a brewery in Germany uses its own waste water to generate the electricity, steam and hot water needed to make its products. Elsewhere, tree bark, sewage sludge and even rubbish from landfill are all turning into one thing: power.
 

More and more companies are using waste products for power generation, thanks to the growth of distributed power.
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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