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Every Electron Gets a Byte: Digital Power Plant Makes Electricity Smart

Tomas Kellner
October 13, 2015
Like an industrial cathedral, a power plant can be a placed filled with a special kind of serenity. Walk into the pump room that feeds high-pressure steam into turbines that make electricity and you can see sun dancing on aluminum ducts while the pumps hum to the tune of 800 horsepower.
But on this day, all is not as it seems. Sure, technicians move around purposefully, performing their normal tasks. Valves open in the right sequence like pipes on an organ. Even trained eyes can’t see anything amiss. But back in the control room, a warning box pops up on the plant operator's screen.
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minds-machines

Ladies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE's First Chief Digital Officer Ganesh Bell Believes that Hardware is the Future of Software

Tomas Kellner
October 10, 2015
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and working in the Valley, I’ve heard Marc Andreessen say that software was going to eat the world and it clicked,” he says. “I realized the next software company wouldn’t be a software company at all. Everyone has access to cloud, big data, and software talent. It’s the companies with deep industry domain in machines, infrastructure and operations expertise that will have the upper hand.
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GE to Build New State-Of-The-Art Engine Plant in Canada to Fill Gap from Ex-Im Bank Lapse

Tomas Kellner
September 27, 2015
GE today announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art "Brilliant Factory" with manufacturing capacity for multiple business lines including Power & Water, Oil & Gas and Transportation in Canada. The plan will create 350 manufacturing jobs in the first phase and will secure access to Canadian Export Finance to fill the gap from the lapse of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
As part of the plan, GE's Power & Water business will stop making its trademark orange gas engines in Waukesha, Wis.
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Industrial Internet

Wind in the Cloud? How the Digital Wind Farm Will Make Wind Power 20 Percent More Efficient

September 27, 2015
Few people embody the backyard inventor better than Charles Brush. In 1887, he built behind his mansion in Cleveland, Ohio, a 4-ton wind generator with 144 blades and a comet-like tail, and used it to power a set of batteries in his basement. Although by today’s standards the huge, 60-foot machine was massively inefficient, it started a new industry that pushed generations of engineers to make it better. Now GE has decided to go further and improve on the entire wind farm in one fell swoop.
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EC Approves GE’s Acquisition of Alstom’s Power and Grid Business

September 08, 2015
Today the European Commission approved GE’s proposed acquisition of the power and grid assets of the French industrial company Alstom.
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Jet-Powered Bangkok: Efficient Aviation-based Turbines to Start Lighting Thailand Next Year

September 02, 2015
Thailand’s star has been on the rise for quite some time. Within the span of a single generation, social and economic progress has propelled it from a low to upper-middle-income level and the country’s poverty rate has been cut almost in half. But while capital has been pouring in, reliable electricity is still hard to come by.
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Talkin’ ‘Bout Power Generation: How an English Aviation Engineer’s Lofty Perspective Helped GE’s Turbine Business Take Off

August 24, 2015
John Lammas sees his handiwork all over the place. At the airport, he can gaze out at a taxiing plane and think, “I worked on that fan blade.” Passing by a power-generation plant, he can say to himself, “I worked on the turbines inside.”
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Like Flying 200 Elephants and a Jumbo Jet Full of Oil: What It Takes to Build a New Power Grid in Six Weeks

August 10, 2015
Last December, Egypt decided to move aggressively to avoid power cuts and brownouts during its sweltering desert summer, when the average high temperature hovers above 90 degrees Fahrenheit for months. It had little time to spare. The heat starts rising early in the spring and country’s existing power plants were already operating at peak capacity to support Egypt’s booming economy.
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Jet Engine Tech from Air Force One is Helping Egypt Keep the Lights On

August 03, 2015
Egypt’s economic reforms and rapidly growing economy are drawing billions of dollars in new investments. But money is not the sole lifeblood of growth in this North African country of 85 million people.
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Tour de Force: Watch the World’s Largest Gas Turbine Wheel Across France

July 08, 2015
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