April 13, 2021 – Schenectady, NY – GE Energy Consulting has been recognized and named to the Forbes America’s Best Management Consulting Firms 2021 List. This prestigious award is presented by Forbes and Statista Inc., the world-leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The awards list was announced on March 16, 2021 and can currently be viewed on the Forbes website.
Energy
All Hands On Deck: When Disaster Struck, This Group Of Engineers Got An Argentinian Power Plant Online
When the Grande America, a cargo ship traveling between Hamburg, Germany, and Casablanca, Morocco, caught fire and sank off the coast of France in March 2019, all 27 people on board were able to get to safety.
Power
Foot On The Gas: Record-Breaking Turbines To Help Taiwan Fuel Economic Growth And Achieve Energy Goals
Taiwan has long had one of East Asia’s most dynamic economies, helping revolutionize industries like electronics and communications. Now Taiwan, which has historically imported vast volumes of fossil fuels to power its growth, is also making good progress on its pledge to generate 20% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2025. Renewables made up nearly 14% of Taiwan’s total installed capacity in 2019, up from less than 9% in 2015, according to government statistics.
Power
Bring It On: High Winds, A Volcano And A Pandemic Didn’t Stop These Engineers From Getting The Job Done
The three GE engineers were all worrying about the same thing: Would the crane and the generator arrive at the same time? Ganesh Potharaju, Guy Stoeckel and Charlie Clement had spent months planning, down to the minute, how to swap out a 30-year-old steam-powered generator for a brand-new one at the Calaca power station on Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.
Gas Turbines
Better Than Fishing: How Friendship Stoked The Flames Of A Gas Turbine Revolution
Don Brandt has always been fascinated by what makes machines tick. He worked as an apprentice in a machine shop after he graduated high school in 1949. In the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, he drove himself crazy trying to fix a fleet of wonky tanks. “There was something wrong with those tanks that I just didn’t understand at the time,” Brandt says, a trace of frustration still lingering in his voice today.
- GE researchers developing an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)- enabled inverse design framework that allows performance metrics to create more optimized designs for industrial gas turbine (IGT) aerodynamic components
- Project aims to achieve a 30-50% reduction in design cycle times, or from 1 year to a few months
- Partnered with University of Notre Dame and GE Gas Power on the project
- Emerging digital toolset will help push combined cycle
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Tim GE Indonesia Menghubungkan dan Memperkuat Jaringan Listrik Jawa-Bali
Jaringan listrik Jawa-Bali merupakan tulang punggung pasokan listrik Indonesia, menyediakan daya bagi lebih dari setengah penduduk Indonesia. Jaringan ini menghubungkan sejumlah pusat penduduk yang padat dan fasilitas produksi daya di Jawa hingga ke empat juta penduduk Bali. Itulah sebabnya infrastruktur jaringan modern pada jaringan Jawa-Bali sangat penting untuk menjamin pasokan listrik yang berkelanjutan bagi masyarakat Indonesia.
GE Indonesia Team Connecting and Powering Java-Bali Grid
The Java-Bali grid is the backbone of Indonesia’s electricity supply, providing power to more than half the nation’s citizens. It connects the major population centres and power production facilities of Java right through to the four million citizens of Bali. That’s why modern grid infrastructure in the Java-Bali grid is so essential to ensure sustainable electricity supply to the people of Indonesia.