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Offshore Wind

Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These massive structures rise 10 meters from the ground and shelter the generator and other parts for GE’s Haliade offshore wind turbines from the elements.
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Batteries Included: Hybrid Power Plants Let Californians Breathe Easy

Amy Kover
August 31, 2018
As Hollywood’s awards season continues and film studios jockey for their Oscars, one Los Angeles entity has racked up enough trophies to make Warner Brothers green with envy.
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Energy Storage

Just Chilling: This British Company Found A Cool Way To Store Energy

Amy Kover
July 23, 2018
In an industrial town a few miles outside of Manchester, England, two steely gray tanks stand 55 feet high. While they might look like part of a newfangled factory — or perhaps a soaring tribute to one of Manchester’s beloved soccer teams — these hulking cylinders serve a different purpose altogether: keeping the British Isles green.
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Renewables

The Rise Of The Hybrids: This Plant Combines Wind And Solar Power To Keep Renewable Electricity Flowing

Fred Guterl
June 24, 2018

Dan Juhl was building a wind farm in Woodstock, Minnesota, back in 1998, and he’d hit a snag. He needed to supply electricity to a small office building for the farm’s engineers and operators, but he couldn’t afford the local utility’s fees for hooking the building up to the grid. He could tap the wind turbines, but then how would he keep the lights on through the summer doldrums, when the wind dies down for days or weeks at a time? The solution seemed obvious: use solar panels to complement the wind.

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wind energy

Riders On The Storm: GE Is Building A Wind Turbine That Can Weather Violent Typhoons, Hurricanes

June 17, 2018

Much like hurricanes in the northern Atlantic, typhoons are a perennial menace threatening Japan, the Philippines, China and other nations sitting on the Pacific Rim. Last year the region endured 11 of these tropical cyclones, whose winds can toss vehicles into the air, uproot trees and tear roofs from houses.

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Wind Power

Blade Runners: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades

Tomas Kellner
June 11, 2018
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating back to the Stone Age. With rich images depicting archers hunting stags, boars and bears, as well as other scenes, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage site and have survived for millennia thanks to the area’s hot and dry weather — the same conditions that lured the world’s largest maker of blades for wind turbines to the area.
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Renewables

Proving Ground: This U.K. Facility Is Preparing To Put The World’s Largest Wind Turbine To Test

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 30, 2018
Marc Sala has a huge challenge on his hands. The giant turbine he’s helping bring to market, the Haliade-X, will stand 260 meters tall, about the same height as New York’s iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza skyscraper. With blades that are longer than a football field, the turbine will have a generator capable of producing 12 megawatts — 2.5 MW more than current turbines and enough to supply the equivalent energy needed to supply 16,000 homes.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
April 20, 2018
Scientists grew “mini brains” inside rodent skulls, created a thin film that can reuse heat energy emanating from computers, engineered an enzyme that could help take care of plastic pollution and finally figured out how to shade contact lenses in sunlight. Just like our star, science has been shining exceptionally bright this week!
 

 

This Enzyme’s Hungry For Plastic
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Renewables

Making Waves: GE Unveils Plans To Build An Offshore Wind Turbine The Size Of A Skyscraper, The World's Most Powerful

Tomas Kellner
March 01, 2018
"When Vincent Schellings started designing wind turbines two decades ago, he frequently polled his colleagues about what they thought was the biggest turbine they could build. “We didn’t get much further than a 3-megawatt machine with a 100-meter rotor,” he recalls. “But even that seemed too big.”
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Renewables

For These Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Included: Wind-Hydro Combo Will Give German Consumers More Renewable Power

P D Olson
February 05, 2018
Ever tried riding a bicycle up a steep hill and ran out of strength? That’s when an electric bike with a built-in battery might have come in handy and carried you to the top. GE Renewable Energy is now pioneering a similar solution for wind turbines. The batteries store power when there is low demand on the grid, say, on a Sunday or at night. The batteries discharge when the wind stops blowing and people and factories need power. But the battery in question isn’t the solid mass you’d find on a bike, though. It’s millions of gallons of water.
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