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World's biggest offshore wind turbine heading to the UK for testing

June 25, 2019
  • GE's Haliade-X 12 MW nacelle and 107-meter long blade will be shipped to the UK as part of an advanced technology testing program
  • Both components will be tested at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult's site in Blyth
  • GE is investing close to £15 million in R&D and testing activities for Haliade-X

London, June 25th 2019 – GE Renewable Energy has confirmed that the Haliade-X 12 MW nacelle and 107-metre long blade will be shipped to the UK as part of an advanced technology testing program that will focus on enhancing t

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GE и S7 Airlines заключили соглашение по сервисному обслуживанию авиадвигателей CF34

June 25, 2019

ЛЕ-БУРЖЕ, Франция, 17 июня 2019 г. — GE и авиакомпания S7 Airlines заключили соглашение True ChoiceTM Flight Hour сроком на семь лет по сервисному обслуживанию авиадвигателей CF34-8E, установленных на семнадцати самолетах Embraer E170. В рамках контракта, сумма которого составила более $85 млн., GE обеспечит плановое обслуживание, а также текущий и капитальный ремонт двигателей.

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GE Renewable Energy and Enerfín team up in Valencia to construct 50 MW Cofrentes wind farm

June 24, 2019
  • Cofrentes is the first project between GE Renewable Energy and Enerfín 
  • The 50 MW wind farm is the first one to be built in the Valencian Community after eight years
  • The scope of the projects highlights GE Renewable Energy's capabilities in Spain with operations, manufacturing of blades, services and digital monitoring to be done in country

Paris, June 24, 2019 – Enerfín announced today the start of the construction of the 50 MW Cofrentes wind farm, which will be powered by 13 of GE Renewable Energy's onshore wind turbines

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GE facilitates €90MM project financing for phase II construction of Ukrainian wind farm

June 24, 2019
  • German banking consortium to provide debt financing to fund the project
  • German and Spanish export credit agencies team up to support the debt financing
  • GE Renewable Energy to supply 26 3.8-137-110HH turbines for phase II 

KIEV, UKRAINE – JUNE 24, 2019 – GE Capital’s Global Capital Advisory (GCA) business, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), has reached another project milestone for DTEK Renewables B.V.

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Paris Air Show

Feeling Supersonic: Jets Traveling At 1,150 MPH Get A Boost From Regulators

Kristin Kloberdanz
June 20, 2019
The glamorous age of the Concorde may soon be returning, if you can afford it. A few companies are developing small supersonic business jets that will be able to travel as fast as 1,150 miles per hour. Plane-makers like Boeing and Aerion, along with NASA, are coming up with new, quieter designs. GE Aviation is building a new civilian supersonic jet engine. Now at the Paris Air Show, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is moving to streamline the process to get supersonic aircraft the approvals they need to take to the air.
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Paris Air Show

Flying High: Jet Engine Maker CFM International Casts An Eye Toward The Future Of Flight

Tomas Kellner
June 16, 2019

The Paris Air Show kicked off this weekend with a briefing for journalists — or at least that’s how the jet engine maker CFM International got things going. To CFM, this year’s show is special. Eleven years ago, in 2008, the company announced in a hotel conference room just off the Avenue des Champs-Élysées that it would build a revolutionary new jet engine called the LEAP. Speaking in the same room on Saturday, Gaël Méheust, CFM's president and CEO, told reporters that the jet engine was “delivering on what we promised.”

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Eternal Sunshine Of The Digital Mind: Companies Are Racing To Digitize Healthcare. This Week Finland Is Playing A Starring Role

Tomas Kellner
June 12, 2019
It can be hard to get a good night of sleep in Helsinki in mid-June, where fiery sunsets last nearly till midnight and the bright sun climbs back up into the sky just a few short early morning hours later. But in a way, it’s the perfect setting for Jack Page and his colleagues, who are tasked with perfecting apps for machines that put people to sleep.
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Medical Imaging

Starting Early: Massive Newborn Study Aims To Solve Long-Term Heart Disease Riddle

Brendan Coffey
June 10, 2019

In addition to all the necessary well-baby visits and obstetrician follow-ups that come on top of the adjustment of having a new baby, Kathrine Garbers found time for yet another visit to Herlev Hospital, just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Garbers and her baby girl, Frigga — not even two weeks old — were there to have the newborn’s heart scanned by Anne-Sophie Sillesen, a doctoral student.

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GE Renewable Energy Signs Three Year Agreement with Enel Green Power to Improve Visibility and Performance on up to 3.2 GW of Hydro Plants

June 04, 2019
  • Goal is to advance O&M activities by centralizing data collection and boosting quality of plant information
  • Predictive analytics, remote monitoring services from hydro experts and on-site sensor assessment are included in the scope of the agreement

Boulogne Billancourt, France, June 4, 2019 – GE Renewable Energy (NYSE: GE) announced today it signed with the Enel Group's renewable business line Enel Green Power (EGP) a three-year agreement to provide predictive Operation and Maintenance (O&M) capabilities to the group's hydro plan

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D-Day

Team Effort: D-Day Victory Came As Many Focused on One Goal

Tomas Kellner
Brendan Coffey
June 04, 2019

The defeat of the Nazi terror that had taken hold of Europe started with women like Marie Kappa, a government inspector based at a GE factory in Erie, Ohio, who inspected GE-produced military equipment. Her efforts carried on through the supply chain all the way to Pvt. Grant Crego, a 19-year-old who landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944, less than a year removed from resigning his job at GE’s Schenectady, New York, plant to enlist in the war effort.

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