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Financing a flourishing clean-energy industry

July 28, 2016
Power purchase agreements for renewable energy may be blowing in the wind, but Jason Willoughby, managing director of GE Energy Financial Services in Australia and New Zealand, proposes a fresh approach to getting wind-farm projects up and running, and acing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target.
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target, set in June last year, is a huge opportunity to deliver almost a quarter of our power needs, or 33,000 GWh, of renewable energy by 2020 in the lowest-cost, most reliable way.
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CAVE2: Monash Uni’s virtual-reality wonderland

July 25, 2016
Strap in for a mind-blowing ride if you’re headed to Paul Bonnington’s presentation at the GE Grid Solutions 2016 Asia Pacific Software Summit (you can still register here). The Monash University professor has given GE Reports a preview, and his ability to bring CAVE2’s awe-inspiring visu
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An app store for machines

July 14, 2016
Predix is shaping up to become the app capital of the Industrial Internet. On the consumer internet an iOS app might tell you the weather forecast in a town of your choice, or track your hours of sleep relative to your kilojoules consumed on any given day. But take an industrial-size shopping cart to the Predix store for the app that analyses the risk and cost of derailment for a freight train traveling in any given weather condition, or an app that predicts where in an electricity grid blackouts are most likely to occur during a storm.
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Exploring our digital industrial future

July 14, 2016
As the middle of another year raced up on us all, CSIRO and GE created a travelling innovation show to bring together a wide array of Australia’s greatest thinkers and disruptors to discuss how we compete and collaborate in the innovation marathon.
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Snakes & Ladders: A chief scientist’s take on Australian innovation

July 14, 2016
Queensland chief scientist, Geoff Garrett, was a key speaker at the launch of last month’s GE-CSIRO Digital Industrial Series of conferences. A former chief executive of CSIRO, Garrett is renowned for forthright, well-informed, engagingly expressed views.
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How CSIRO and GE are shaping our future

July 14, 2016
CSIRO and GE share common goals: to shape the future and deliver solutions that make a difference. Both organisations are rapidly harnessing digital technologies to enable new approaches and momentous discovery through data mining. At the same time, digitisation is driving organisational transformation at the national science agency and the multinational corporation alike.
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Australia’s competitive advantage: a global perspective

June 29, 2016
Karan Bhatia (far right), vice president and senior counsel of global government affairs and policy for GE, at the Crawford Australian Leadership Forum in Canberra.
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Where drone meets industry

June 22, 2016
Australia’s natural-gas developers are striving to become ultra-competitive in a challenging global market. For Shell Australia’s newly acquired Queensland Gas Company (QGC), an 18-kilogram unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a 3-metre wingspan represents the kind of collaboration and innovation that the industry needs in order to propel efficiencies to the next order of magnitude. Never before have Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) operations been commercially applied on such a scale.
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Cloudy with a chance of octopuses: is your business ready?

June 22, 2016
As fans of Sharknado I, II and III might say, “Imagine the crazy-scariest thing you can conjure up and triple it. Then again!” That’s how the schlock-horror movie franchise got to three full-length features—with a fourth screening soon!
Sure, tornadoes of sharks are supreme Hollywood fantasy, but in the real world of work, clouds might also gather to rain down the gnarly and unexpected.. Whether it's a tsunami of disruption or metaphorical storms of octopuses thundering down, here’s the key question: Is your business prepared?
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Tapping into the data flow: innovation leaders float big ideas

June 22, 2016
As data billows into the Cloud and innovation leapfrogs the impossible, stakeholders are seeking to shape the future and deliver solutions that make a difference. The 2016 GE/CSIRO Digital Industrial Series brings together the worlds of research and entrepreneurship, of business and industry to create a confluence of ideas that deliver!
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