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It’s Only Natural: New Ohio Power Plant To Use GE’s Record-Setting Natural Gas Turbines

Brendan Coffey
Maggie Sieger
September 09, 2019

The history of Guernsey County, Ohio, is entwined with glass. Glassware in such vibrant and poetic colors as carmen, royal blue, crown Tuscan and heatherbloom, produced by the Cambridge Glass Company, made this corner of Ohio world-famous and turned the plant into “one of the most prosperous glass companies the world had ever known,” according to a company history.

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Ducking The Duck Curve: This Tech Will Help California Ride Out Power Swings Caused By Renewables

August 22, 2019
The rapid growth of California’s solar industry has changed the Golden State’s grid from a camel into a duck — and no, we have not been sitting out too long in the midday sun. California’s baseload curve, or bare minimum electricity supply, used to look like the profile of a camel with two equally sized humps, because thermal plants came online twice a day to meet power demand peaks.
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Switch It Up: Superfast DC Circuit Breaker Could Unlock Renewables’ Full Potential

Fred Guterl
March 18, 2019

America’s Great Plains are a windy place. In the 1930s, vast clouds of dust ruined crops and forced thousands to migrate off their farms, inspiring John Steinbeck’s novel “The Grapes of Wrath.” That same persistent and powerful wind is now inspiring a boom in wind turbine farms. Two Texas sites — Roscoe and Horse Hollow — each produce more than 700 megawatts of electrical power, as much as a combined-cycle power plant, and more wind farms are in the offing. But to unlock the wind’s bounty in full, engineers still need to crack a few problems.

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7 Million Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Ignore The Power Industry

Thomas R Kuhn President Of The Edison Electric Institute
August 07, 2017
Nearly everything we do depends on an affordable and reliable supply of electricity. In fact, many of GE’s most innovative solutions to the world’s toughest challenges are powered by electricity. As a participant on GE’s Ecomagination Board since 2010, I have come to appreciate this confluence of our businesses and how we really do rely on one another.
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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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How The Digital Grid Can Help Save The Planet

Juan De Bedout GE Energy Connections
Debora Frodl GE
June 05, 2017

New solutions are enabling a cleaner and more efficient global power system, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Juan M. de Bedout, Chief Technology Officer at GE Energy Connections.

 

 
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Get Smart: Utilities Can Benefit From Connected Homes

Angelo Rosiello
Sandro Melis
Arun Mani
June 02, 2017

The smart-home business had a value of $47 billion globally in 2015, and it's expected to grow at 14 percent annually. But utilities need to move particularly fast in this business, according to Oliver Wyman's energy and utilities experts. New entrants, especially big tech players, are moving in with services that leverage their whiz-bang digital wear.

 

 
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Supercharge Me: The Case For The European Energy Supergrid

Gerhard Seyrling General Manager Of Grid Automation At GE Energy Connections
May 29, 2017

In March, Gerhard Seyrling, General Manager of Grid Automation at GE Energy Connections was elected to his second term as President of the European Association of the Electricity Transmission & Distribution Equipment and Services Industry (T&D Europe). At the frontline of change, he discusses how an interconnected Europe will shape the T&D industry.

 

 

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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
May 19, 2017
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a technology that purifies water by injecting it with CO2 gas and researchers in Holland are using 3D-printed implants to correct eye defects in children. We see progress.
 

The Swarm Is Getting Smarter
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The Real Point Break: Where The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Prove Their Mettle

December 15, 2015
In parts of the world like the US and Brazil where electric current oscillates at 60 Hz, there’s no larger and more efficient gas turbine than a machine GE calls 7HA. So efficient, in fact, that when it swallows and burns 3.3 tons of air mixed with natural gas - equivalent to 23 tanker trucks - out comes a mere 6.3 fluid ounces of pollution, a volume slightly larger than a half- can of soda.
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