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An Expert’s 6 Bright Ideas On The 'Golden Age Of Renewable Energy'

Nick Miller Senior Technical Director GE Energy Consulting
December 30, 2016

Meet Nick Miller, a power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here’s a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together. As Senior Technical Director for GE Energy Consulting, Miller also advises industry.

GE commits to develop wind power

December 13, 2016
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On May 23, on the occasion of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam, GE and the Ministry of Industry and Trade signed an agreement to develop new wind farms with a total capacity of 1,000 megawatts by 2025. Jérôme Pécresse, president and CEO of GE Renewable Energy, talked to VIR’s Hoang Anh about how GE’s co-operation with the ministry is going to help Vietnam utilise its substantial wind resources to meet the nation’s energy demand.

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GE ký kết hợp tác phát triển Phong điện tại Việt Nam

December 09, 2016
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Ngày 23/5/2016, nhân chuyến thăm Việt Nam của Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama, GE và Bộ Công thương đã ký kết hợp tác phát triển các nhà máy phong điện với tổng công suất 1.000MW vào năm 2025. Trả lời báo Đầu tư, ông Jerome Pecresse, Chủ tịch và Tổng giám đốc của GE Năng lượng Tái tạo, giải thích việc hợp tác của GE với Bộ Công thương sẽ giúp Việt Nam tận dụng được nguồn năng lượng gió dồi dào để đáp ứng nhu cầu điện năng toàn quốc như thế nào.

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How Renewable Energy Is Taking A Page From Bitcoin

Laurent Schmitt Smart Grid Strategy Leader GE Grid Solutions
November 28, 2016

The problem of “too much” renewable energy on a grid can be solved with blockchain, a technology most often associated with bitcoins. Blockchain will provide a transparent way for households and businesses to trade renewables with each other. Laurent Schmitt, Smart Grid Strategy Leader for GE's Grid Solutions business, explains how it will work.

 

 

Bitcoin is one of the most revolutionary ideas to come out of the tech world. A whole new form of currency was created from nothing, but people are now using it to buy everything from coffee to electronics.
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Hawaii’s Biggest Electricity Supplier Explains How The State Will Be First To Rely On 100 Percent Renewables

Connie Lau
November 18, 2016
What’s been called the most aggressive clean energy goal in the nation, legislation was enacted last year with the goal that the state of Hawaii will use 100 percent renewable sources by 2045. Connie Lau, president and CEO of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., and GE Ecomagination Advisory Board member, explains why the state’s largest electricity supplier supports the goal and what they are learning as they work to get there.
 

 
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    This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy

    Tobey Grumet
    October 16, 2016
    Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by combining it with hydropower. The big idea here is that the wind will generate electricity when it’s, well, windy, and the water will act as a giant battery that will discharge and modulate output when it stops blowing.
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    Bladerunners: GE’s Wind Business To Buy Danish Blade Maker For $1.65 Billion

    Tomas Kellner
    October 11, 2016
    The company that made the world’s largest wind turbine blade will soon join one of the world’s largest makers of wind turbines. GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $1.65 billion.
    LM Wind is a global leader in wind turbine rotor manufacturing. The company builds blades for the industry’s 1.5- and 2-megawatt, meat-and-potatoes wind turbines as well as 8-megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters — more than two football fields.
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    Wait And Sea: Merkur, Germany’s Massive Offshore Wind Farm, Is Finally Taking Shape

    September 25, 2016
    The North Sea is known for some epic swells. The rollercoaster ride involving Merkur, one of Europe’s largest offshore wind farms, lasted nearly five years.
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    En Garde!: Chris Holmes’ Daughter Is Ready To Fight Olympians With A Steely Sword

    Dorothy Pomerantz
    August 04, 2016
    Of the many GE employees traveling to Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games this month, few are as anxious and as hopeful as Chris Holmes.


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    This Giant Ship With Legs Must Be The Strangest Sight On The Atlantic

    July 21, 2016
    From a luxury liner crossing the cold waters of the north Atlantic, Brave Tern may look like an uncharted island rising from the sea. But sail closer, and you will see an unusual ship making history. The boxy, 132-meter-long, 39-meter-wide wind turbine installation vessel framed by four soaring steel columns is carrying five massive nacelles for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island Wind Farm, America’s first offshore wind farm.
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