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Freeze! One man instantly solves the world’s dirtiest water problem

May 26, 2016
Ahilan Raman, director and lone ranger at Australian company Clean Energy and Water Technologies, answered the GE-Statoil Open Innovation Challenge to reduce freshwater use in shale oil development, because he was driven to “contribute to a solution”.
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Energy Storage

How California Broke Partisan Gridlock And Embraced Sustainable Energy

Janice Lin Founder And Managing Partner Strategen Consulting
April 21, 2016

California’s energy storage development shows how, through collaboration, the private and public sector can work together to achieve sustainable energy goals.

 
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Energy

The Wood Chips Are Down: GE Is Building A Massive Biomass Energy Plant In Belgium

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 30, 2016
Wood, the world’s oldest source of fuel, is making a big comeback in the medieval Belgian city of Ghent. Belgian Eco Energy (BEE) has selected GE to build what will be the largest and most efficient supercritical wood-chip-biomass-fired power plant in the world.
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Big Data Oils The Future Of O&G

March 25, 2016
As the oil and gas industry goes through a downturn, operational efficiency can be the difference between a healthy balance sheet and one inked in red. In fact, it may even determine if a company stays afloat during these challenging times.
The introduction of big data analytics has helped the industry improve on its efficiencies, facilitating industry players to reduce downtime and optimise resources. General Electric (GE), for example, has presented various digital industrial solutions.
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Watt's new in wastewater treatment?

March 23, 2016
Google Dr Lindsey Gove, and one of the references that surfaces is to the 20th European Biosolids Conference, held last year in Manchester. Peruse the program of now past sessions; one of the most intriguing is Future Markets For Sludge. You’re smiling, right? And that’s perhaps before you know that “sludge” refers to sewage solids—what’s left after most of the first flush of water has been removed from raw sewage and treated for release back into the wild.
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Little robots boost reliability of big power plants

March 22, 2016
The ink is fresh on a contract signed with Alinta Energy for GE to provide robotic inspections of 19 generators across all of the power company’s gas-fired plants in Australia and New Zealand. The robots didn’t sign, although their dexterity plays a major part in this agreement that underscores a new era of optimising machine productivity, and reducing the risk of damage to expensive assets—this may, eventually, have a cost benefit when it comes to insurance premiums paid to protect such assets.
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Come To The Dark Side

March 19, 2016
At 8.30pm on Saturday the 19th of March the lights will go off as people stand together for Earth Hour – an hour where the whole world unites to combat climate change.

Earth Hour 2015 saw almost 10,000 iconic monuments falling to darkness and over 70,000 events held around the world. This year’s Earth Hour aims to be bigger still.
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Renewables

Translating the Paris Climate Deal into Action — Q&A with Christina Hood of the IEA

Christina Hood Climate Policy Analyst At The International Energy Agency
March 17, 2016

Following the climate breakthrough in Paris, there’s reason to be more optimistic about curbing emissions. Renewables can play a key role in that effort.

 
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From Highlands to the islands, GE partners with PNG

March 16, 2016
John Rice, the global vice chairman of GE is in Papua New Guinea, to speak with national leaders, build his understanding of the nation’s needs, talk to customers and confer with his local team. His visit is part of GE’s strategy to discover what approaches to infrastructure would most benefit this country of 7.8 million people, spread over 22 geographically spectacular provinces including 600 islands—a land of rich resources, stunning biodiversity, and opportunity, but where only 13% of the population has access to reliable electricity.
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Electrification Software Energy

Deep Learning: New Subsea Service Model Helps Oil Drillers Limit Costs

February 24, 2016
When Marc Edwards joined Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. as chief executive in 2014, he already knew how dependent offshore drilling rigs were on blowout preventers — valve assemblies designed to prevent oil spills. But he was surprised when he found out how costly it was when those blowout preventers were out of service.
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