×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image
Electrification Software Grid

Honey, I Shrunk The Grid: How Digital Technology Is Straightening Out The Power System's ‘Cable Spaghetti’

February 04, 2019

Electrical substations — the clusters of circuit breakers, transformers and switchgears that stick out of the ground like giant cattle prods — aren’t much to look at. What they lack in glamour, they make up for in sheer utility. Substations are the grid’s unsung heroes that toil in obscurity to keep our homes lit and phones charged. You might find one near a power plant, switching up the power generated by, say, a gas-burning facility into electricity that flows in high-voltage transmission cables to towns and cities.

header-image
Electrification Software Grid

She Has Her Finger On Power’s Pulse: GE’s Vera Silva Talks About Building The Nervous System For Energy And Getting The Electric Grid Truly Ready For The 21st Century

Tomas Kellner
February 04, 2019

Operating a massive power grid is a bit like riding a bike, says the Swiss national grid operator Swissgrid. It’s easiest if you’re on a level surface, but things get trickier going uphill or downhill — or, in the case of the grid, when there are fluctuations in supply and demand that require power plant operators to either spin their turbines faster or ease off the throttle.

header-image
Renewables

Winds Of Change: GE Combines Grid, Renewables Units Into A Renewable Energy Powerhouse

Tomas Kellner
January 30, 2019

Germany’s huge new offshore wind farm Merkur is an awesome sight in its own right. But it’s also a great illustration of why GE’s decision to combine its Renewable Energy business with its Grid Solutions unit, announced today, makes a lot of sense.

header-image
Renewables

A Towering Achievement: This Summer In Holland, GE Will Build The World’s Largest Wind Turbine

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2019

Rotterdam’s famous windmills, cube houses, and tulip gardens will soon have to compete for attention with a towering newcomer. GE announced plans this week to erect a prototype of the world’s largest wind turbine, the Haliade-X, on the city’s outskirts. The turbine has a rotor that measures 220 meters in diameter — twice the length of a football field — and stretches 260 meters from its base to blade tips. That’s nearly three times the height of New York’s Statue of Liberty, measured from the ground to the tip of the torch.

header-image

Cypress: the world’s most powerful wind turbines

Jane Nicholls
December 06, 2018
The cost of renewable energy continues to follow a sharp downward curve and the technological advances to improve its generating capacity, flexibility and reliability are going upward just as dramatically.
“For renewable energy to keep going as strongly as it has been, we do need to keep bringing down the cost and to do that, we need the latest technology,” says Jérôme Pécresse, global CEO of GE Renewable Energy. “The product cycle for wind energy has accelerated greatly — we introduce new turbines or new platforms to the market every one to two years.”
header-image

Bodangora by drone: A young filmmaker shoots the breeze

Natalie Filatoff
November 29, 2018
Steering a drone around a wind turbine while maintaining perspective on the images captured by a drone-mounted video camera requires skill, focus, and absolute certainty of where the drone is in relation to its subject.
header-image
Wind Power

All That Jazz: GE Opens Wind Turbine Blade Test Center At NASA Rocket Factory In New Orleans

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2018
There are few places in the world like NASA’s rocket factory in New Orleans, where the U.S. space agency and its contractors are building the Space Launch System. It’s the most powerful rocket ever designed — and may one day take astronauts as far as Mars. Known as the Michoud Assembly Facility, the plant covers an area equal to 31 American football fields, including several soaring high-bay areas where workers stack silver and orange rocket segments like Jenga blocks.
header-image
Renewable energy

Switch It Up: This Tech Helps Take The World's Largest Offshore Wind Turbine To A New Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 25, 2018
The Haliade-X turbine has the potential to blow the offshore wind industry to the next level.
header-image
Renewable energy

High Tech: These Crews Keep A Close Eye On Massive Wind Turbine Blades

Fred Guterl
October 10, 2018
As Europe ramps up its investment in wind power, turbines have bloomed like wildflowers across the continent. Wind-energy production has more than doubled — from 150 terawatt-hours in 2010 to 364 terawatt-hours in 2017 — and now makes up more than 11 percent of the European Union’s electricity, according to a report by Agora Energiewende and Sandbag.
header-image
Renewables

Wind Turbines Of Change: This New Wind Turbine Platform Is Creating Fresh Opportunities For Renewables Around The World

September 24, 2018
The capriciousness of the elements is a perennial challenge for intermittent renewable energy sources. The wind doesn’t always blow, and the sun hides behind clouds. While engineers may not be able to command the weather, they’re getting better at harnessing as much wind as possible by bringing wind turbines to blustery places where logistically it could not have been done before. A profitable wind farm nestled in a Japanese mountain valley or rising from the slopes of rugged Greek hills is now possible because of the combination of new technologies and skilled service crews.
Subscribe to GE Renewable energy