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Electrification Software Grid

So You Have A Wind Farm, Now What? This Software Will Bring More Renewable Power To People's Homes

June 28, 2016
You know it’s windy when water seemingly violates the law of gravity. That happened in Scotland last February when Storm Henry’s 100-miles-per-hour gale flipped a waterfall on the Isle of Mull on its head, made it cascade up a cliff and turned it into a YouTube sensation. No wonder wind power is big business in the Highlands.
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Wise words on wind energy

June 22, 2016
Izzie Pope took the stage after the premier, the minister, the deputy mayor and the chief operating officer. No disrespect to the heavy hitters, but it was the Year 12 student who delivered a beautifully considered speech to the hundreds in attendance at the Ararat Wind Farm Bring on the Blades celebration. A sound bite: “When the 46th anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated globally this year, Generation Z looked on in mild confusion, because we don’t need a special day for considering our environmental impact … every day is a day for sustainable living.”
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Ararat Wind Farm: bring on the blades!

June 22, 2016
The official ground-breaking for Ararat Wind Farm was only in November 2015, but construction is in full swing at the site, which stretches across prime wind positions atop Victoria’s Great Dividing Range and is set to be Australia’s third-largest wind farm, 180km north-west of Melbourne .
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Turbine blade puts fresh spin on renewable energy

June 22, 2016
When Victoria’s Labor Premier Daniel Andrews this week signed his name on the first GE wind-turbine blade to arrive for the Ararat Wind Farm, he also wrote on the gleaming fibreglass surface his government’s brand-new pledge to the Victorian people—to have the state running on 25% renewable energy by the year 2020, and to increase that to 40% renewable energy by the year 2025!
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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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Renewables

This Massive Magnet Will Generate Power At America's First Offshore Windfarm

Tomas Kellner
March 20, 2016
Offshore wind farms can tap into a bounty of wind that allows them to work twice as productively. But that efficiency comes at a cost. Like any sea-based technology, wind farms are difficult to build and expensive to maintain, with workers fighting against the same weather that makes the farms work so well. As a result, terrestrial turbines have been steadily gaining ground compared to turbines built at sea. But that may soon change.
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Renewables

How GE Is Helping Build America’s 1st Offshore Wind Farm

Timothy Brown
March 18, 2016
New wind farms added more than a quarter of total new power generation capacity in the United States between 2010 and 2014, reaching 75,000 megawatts at the end of last year. No other country with the exception of China has more. But the race is on.
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Renewables

Mix And Match: These Engineers Make Renewables Play Nice With Other Sources Of Energy

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.

This trend isn't going away. Getting all that clean electricity to homes and factories, however, is a challenging task.

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Renewables

Cloudy With A Chance Of Electrons: This Scientist Can Forecast Renewable Electricity

Todd Alhart
February 29, 2016
A group of physicists that included a Nobel laureate and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s brother spent the 1940s working in GE labs to figure out how to control the weather. After a promising start – they created snowfall over Schenectady, N.Y. – the project eventually fizzled.
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Renewables

This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source In The U.S.

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.
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