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Offshore Wind

Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These massive structures rise 10 meters from the ground and shelter the generator and other parts for GE’s Haliade offshore wind turbines from the elements.
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Spin Doctors: How Software And Engineering Savvy Helps GE Squeeze The Most From A Fleet Of 900 Wind Turbines

September 06, 2018
Over 150 years ago, a budding English economist named William Stanley Jevons warned that a policy of energy efficiency might not be sufficient to conserve Britain’s dwindling coal reserves. His argument, now known as the Jevons paradox, was simple: Squeeze more energy from less coal, and people will just want more coal.
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Wellington wind: a new resource in times of drought

Natalie Filatoff
August 28, 2018
Five-year-old Wellingtonian, Albert Rich, has ambitions to be “a wind farm builder”. At home and at preschool, he convinces his friends to take part in constructing turbines from cardboard tubing and any likely blade materials to hand, sometimes trucking them in from … another room.
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Wind farm safety in the spotlight

Jane Nicholls
July 31, 2018
In a motel in Kingaroy, outback Queensland, this training session is instantly distinct from familiar corporate-education days: the facilitator has set off passionate discussions before the participants have even finished their first coffee. “What are the top dangers you have little or no control of when you’re at work?” he asks. The focus in the room is unwavering as he writes up the answers they call out on the whiteboard. Forget the standard workplace gripes of inbox overload, pointless meetings, stolen lunches from the communal fridge.
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Access To Electricity

Power Trip: How Energy Saved By GE Factories Is Helping Electrify African Villages For The First Time

Kristin Kloberdanz
July 11, 2018

Borena Tiki, a schoolteacher who lives in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, has recently experienced something monumental: the opportunity to charge his cellphone any time he likes.

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Wind Power

Testing, Testing: How A Colorado Turbine Helped GE Expand Its Wind Business

Dorothy Pomerantz
June 29, 2018

As wind whistles down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, it picks up a lot of speed. It’s not unheard of for gusts of up to 100 miles per hour to slam into the rolling green foothills just outside of Boulder, Colorado.

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wind energy

Riders On The Storm: GE Is Building A Wind Turbine That Can Weather Violent Typhoons, Hurricanes

June 17, 2018

Much like hurricanes in the northern Atlantic, typhoons are a perennial menace threatening Japan, the Philippines, China and other nations sitting on the Pacific Rim. Last year the region endured 11 of these tropical cyclones, whose winds can toss vehicles into the air, uproot trees and tear roofs from houses.

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Wind Power

Blade Runners: A Look Inside A Factory For Giant Wind Turbine Blades

Tomas Kellner
June 11, 2018
Every year, thousands of tourists travel to the northwestern corner of Castellón, a province on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, to visit some of Europe’s oldest and most plentiful cave paintings, dating back to the Stone Age. With rich images depicting archers hunting stags, boars and bears, as well as other scenes, the caves are now a UNESCO World Heritage site and have survived for millennia thanks to the area’s hot and dry weather — the same conditions that lured the world’s largest maker of blades for wind turbines to the area.
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Renewables

Proving Ground: This U.K. Facility Is Preparing To Put The World’s Largest Wind Turbine To Test

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 30, 2018
Marc Sala has a huge challenge on his hands. The giant turbine he’s helping bring to market, the Haliade-X, will stand 260 meters tall, about the same height as New York’s iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza skyscraper. With blades that are longer than a football field, the turbine will have a generator capable of producing 12 megawatts — 2.5 MW more than current turbines and enough to supply the equivalent energy needed to supply 16,000 homes.
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Offshore Wind

The X Factor: Here’s What It Takes To Build The Tower For The World’s Most Powerful Offshore Wind Turbine

Tomas Kellner
May 25, 2018
"Some 6 million people from around the world travel to Paris each year to climb Gustave Eiffel’s eponymous tower. Industrial engineer Daniel Castell is now working on a structure that will also reach great heights. An engineering marvel in its own right, chances are that very few people will ever see it — but millions will benefit from it.
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