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Wind Power

For The Record: GE Onshore Wind Turbines In North America Can Now Power The Equivalent Of 11 Million U.S. Homes

Amy Kover
May 21, 2018
Iowa may conjure up images of sweeping cornfields dotted with farms, but this Midwestern state has been at the forefront of wind energy technology since 1983, when it became the first state to enact a renewable-energy mandate, requiring local investor-owned utilities to use wind or solar sources for power generation. In 2017, Iowa generated 37 percent of its electricity from wind, the largest share nationwide.
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Industrial Internet

The French Connection: Digital Twins From Paris Will Protect Wind Turbines Against Battering North Atlantic Gales

Dorothy Pomerantz
April 26, 2018
In the heart of Paris, a short walk from the city’s storied opera, GE engineers are busy coding software that will allow them to create “digital twins” of machines. These virtual representations of the real machines live in the cloud and use as their lifeblood data captured from their parts. The engineers are partnering with Ansys, a leader in engineering simulation software, to digitally play out different scenarios, such as running an aircraft engine longer and in a hotter or wetter environment.
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Renewables

Making Waves: GE Unveils Plans To Build An Offshore Wind Turbine The Size Of A Skyscraper, The World's Most Powerful

Tomas Kellner
March 01, 2018
"When Vincent Schellings started designing wind turbines two decades ago, he frequently polled his colleagues about what they thought was the biggest turbine they could build. “We didn’t get much further than a 3-megawatt machine with a 100-meter rotor,” he recalls. “But even that seemed too big.”
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Renewables

For These Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Included: Wind-Hydro Combo Will Give German Consumers More Renewable Power

P D Olson
February 05, 2018
Ever tried riding a bicycle up a steep hill and ran out of strength? That’s when an electric bike with a built-in battery might have come in handy and carried you to the top. GE Renewable Energy is now pioneering a similar solution for wind turbines. The batteries store power when there is low demand on the grid, say, on a Sunday or at night. The batteries discharge when the wind stops blowing and people and factories need power. But the battery in question isn’t the solid mass you’d find on a bike, though. It’s millions of gallons of water.
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After Epic Road Trip, This 241-Foot Wind Turbine Blade Is Ready To Get Down To Business In Germany

Maggie Sieger
December 22, 2017
In October, employees at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade factory in Castellón, Spain, briefly left their posts to send off their biggest achievement to date — all 241 feet of it.
They sent the huge blade — four times longer than a bowling lane and the largest ever produced in Spain — to the local port, loaded it on a boat and shipped it to Germany, where it will harvest wind at the Merkur wind farm in the North Sea.
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From Web To Watts: How Tech Companies Are On Course To Power Your Fridge

P D Olson
November 03, 2017
The energy market was once a largely impersonal affair for customers. They’d pay utilities, get service in return, and that was about it. But demand for renewable energy has ushered in an era of hands-on consumerism, with green-minded corporations now directly supporting its growth.
Case in point: Microsoft, which just signed a 15-year contract to buy 100 percent of the wind energy from a new 37-megawatt wind farm in the Irish countryside, built and owned by GE. The software company will use all energy produced from the farm to power its Irish data center.
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A View To A Kilowatt: Fit For A Bond Villain, This Massive Swiss Power Plant Hides Beneath The Alps

P D Olson
October 10, 2017
Imagine the silvery-white mist of a waterfall, spraying down the side of a cliff face that towers over a quaint Swiss village. Now imagine a different kind of waterfall. One that’s made by humans, processes millions of gallons of water and is hidden deep within a mountain.
Oh, and the water also flows backwards.
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Size Matters: The Next Big Thing In Wind Turbines

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2017
In the race to supply the world with carbon-free renewable energy, there have been encouraging signs in wind power, with costs there falling by half over the last decade. How might a turbine manufacturer get those prices even lower? Go big.
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‘In The Wild’ Shows How Far GE Wind Blades Can Be Pushed Without Breaking A Sweat

Dorothy Pomerantz
August 18, 2017
Wind is already a powerful player in renewable energy. The Global Wind Energy Council estimates the total generating capacity of the world’s wind farms is now greater than all nuclear power plants combined, 487 gigawatts versus 393 gigawatts.
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future of energy

Why We Should Take A Super-Critical Look At Coal Financing

Karan Bhatia GE
July 26, 2017
As one of the largest energy technology companies in the world, we at GE believe climate change is real and that more should be done to transition to clean energy. We have put our money where our mouth is and developed one of the largest renewable energy portfolios in the world, investing over $20 billion in clean tech R&D over the last 12 years.
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