Renewable energy
Closing The Loop: Group Unveils A Prototype Of A Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade
Wind has been powering the world’s energy transition to a more sustainable future, but the turbines that convert wind energy into electricity come with their own carbon footprint. As a result, companies that make turbine components have tried to make the footprint smaller.
sustainability
Second Life: This Plant Will Recycle Wind Turbine Blades In Spain
Wind power is a fast-growing source of renewable energy, but that doesn’t mean the industry isn’t trying to lower its carbon footprint. One way to do it involves recycling wind turbine blades.
Renewable energy
Charged Up: This GE Tech Is Engineered To Speed Up Energy Transition
Last year, GE made a commitment to becoming carbon-neutral in its own operations by 2030. In GE’s 2020 Sustainability Report, released this summer, the company is going even further, with an ambition to be net zero by 2050, including Scope 3 emissions from the use of sold products. GE’s tradition of innovation will play a big role as engineers find new ways to help solve looming challenges like the energy transition to address climate change.
Wind Power
Decisive Move: U.S. Government Clears Vineyard Wind, America’s First Commercial-Scale Offshore Project
Located south of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard is known as a summer destination for the rich and famous. But if the island is where well-heeled vacationers go to recharge their batteries, it’s set to soon be associated with another kind of energy altogether: America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, projected to generate 800 megawatts and supply renewable electricity to thousands of U.S. homes.
Largest wind turbines in Asia to power Vietnam
With a rotor diameter of 158 metres, GE's Cypress platform wind turbines will be the largest in Asia
GE’s Cypress platform wind turbines used in the second phase of the Mui Ne wind farm invested by The Blue Circle and AC Energy will be the largest rotor diameter for an onshore project in Asia (158 metres) and will be the first to transport blades in two pieces before assembly on site.
Renewables
Atlantis Is Calling: GE Turbines To Power The World’s Largest Offshore Wind Project
Ever since Plato wrote about the lost island of Atlantis, scientists and enthusiasts of every ilk have been searching for it. One location that’s gathered a lot of attention is Dogger Bank, a vast shallow sandbank in the North Sea. Larger than Connecticut, the bank might once have formed a land bridge connecting the U.K. with continental Europe, but disappeared 7,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, when melting glaciers caused seas to rise.
Hybrids
The Rise Of The Hybrids: New GE Unit Blends Batteries And Renewables To Boost Wind And Solar Power Output
Renewables
Team Spirit: What It Takes To Build A Factory That Makes The World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade
Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy. Commissioned by France’s last king, Louis XVI, championed by Napoleon and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, the port was key to opening a direct shipping route for supplies from the U.S. The Germans garrisoned there knew it well — and put up a fierce fight.
Wind Power
Fresh Air: Turkish Turbine Blade Factory Invigorates Historic Town
