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Nuclear Power

2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside. Here's Why.

September 16, 2016
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it's anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the average man. A pair of them, each capable of producing 1,770 megawatts—is now set to cross the English Channel to provide energy for generations.
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Renewables

Ship Shape: This Floating Offshore Wind Farm Could Be The Future Of Renewable Energy

August 30, 2016
France generates three-quarters of its electricity in nuclear power plants, but that figure is changing. The country aims to generate one-third of its energy from renewable sources. Solar and wind farms have been popping up everywhere, and now the country is reaching to a solution so groundbreaking it will never touch land at all: the floating wind turbine. “Floating wind farms are very innovative and can be a crucial part of the energy mix of the future,” says Léonore Petit, strategy and business development coordinator at GE Renewable Energy.
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Guinness World Records

Here's Why The Latest Guinness World Record Will Keep France Lit Up Long After Soccer Fans Leave

Tomas Kellner
June 17, 2016
First the latest news from Guinness World Records: The world’s most efficient combined-cycle power plant started producing electricity near the village of Bouchain in northern France today. The plant’s beating heart – an advanced GE gas turbine – can convert more than 62 percent of fuel energy into electricity. For the power-generation crowd, that’s like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon or Sir Roger Bannister breaking through the 4-minute-mile barrier.
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes

Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2016
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live there are used to making very big things.
The world’s fastest and largest liners, including Normandie and Queen Mary 2, sprung from its dry docks. The port also serves as a transit hub for the fuselage and wings that make the double-decker Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
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Electrification Software Energy

That’s So Nice: Electricity’s Digital Future Has Dawned On The French Riviera

February 02, 2016
The commune of Carros in the south of France straddles a leafy valley tucked away a short ride from Nice and the beaches of the French Riviera. Like much of Provence, the medieval town of 11,000 swells every summer with tourists seeking tans and sipping rosé. But it may soon become a magnet for people interested in the sun for a different reason.
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STEM

The Future of Science Is Big (Data) and Tiny (Nanoscale) - Interview with France Córdova of the National Science Foundation

France Cordova Director Of The National Science Foundation
December 27, 2015

The head of the National Science Foundation discusses the promises and challenges of science and tech research, including the need to scale up the U.S. innovation ecosystem and make it more evenly distributed geographically.

 
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Energy

The French Connection: Why GE and EDF Click

November 05, 2015
French energy giant EDF is a well-known nuclear-power-generation company, but now it wants to diversify its energy mix by expanding into renewable energy. Antoine Cahuzac, the CEO of EDF Énergies Nouvelles, the company’s renewables division, believes the newly merged GE and Alstom Energy, with its global footprint, will be the perfect partner. “Both GE and Alstom are very important for us,” Cahuzac says. “They have globally recognized technological expertise in turbines ... and their equipment is state-of-the-art.”
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"Moon Power" is Here. First Subsea Tidal Power Plant to Go Live in France in 2015, UK is Next

May 29, 2015
Most people might still consider the idea of using tides to generate electricity as outlandish as a trip to the moon. But starting this year, the concept is quickly becoming reality. “We went to the moon 46 years ago, and now we are using it to produce energy,” says Frederic Navarro, project director at GE Power Conversion in Belfort, France. “That’s because the moon’s gravity tugs on the ocean and produces predictable tides that run like clockwork, twice a day.”
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Ana Palacio: Europe’s Energy Essentials

Ana Palacio Spanish Council Of State
November 27, 2014
At last month’s European Council meeting in Brussels, energy issues dominated the agenda — for the third time this year.
 
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Grayson Brulte: Creating Value at High Internet Speeds

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
October 17, 2014
It has been 66 years since John Walson Sr. invented cable TV in America. Today, about 100 million U.S. households pay for TV, according to research firm SNL Kagan, or approximately 85 percent of all households in the country.
 
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