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François Austin: Progress Toward Balanced, Sustainable Energy World Remains Slow

Francois Austin Partner And Head Of Energy Practice For Oliver Wyman
December 03, 2015

From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, François Austin discusses the need for greater international cooperation on sustainable energy.

 
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STEM

Adventures in Electricity: Old GE Comics Still Teach Powerful Lessons

Thomas Herles
December 03, 2015

In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of books called Adventures in Science. The series covered everything from space travel to electricity, and the company is now taking its heroes out of retirement. It partnered with the storytelling app 

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Wind with benefits

November 26, 2015
Windfall: an unexpected good fortune, a piece of fruit blown down by the wind! The term suits the benefits that accrue around wind farms. As rural-based infrastructure projects, they confirm people’s investment and faith in their communities, and contribute to thriving towns and skills-based employment. As windfalls go, Ararat Wind Farm, the 75-turbine, $450 million venture due to start feeding more of Australia’s endless wind resource to the electricity grid from 2017, has hit the ground running.
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Energy

Give and Take: How the World and GE Power Benefit from the GE Store

Benjamin Seiden
November 23, 2015
Some 1.3 billion people don’t have access to reliable electricity today. The International Energy Agency’s 2014 World Energy Outlook estimates the world needs to add some 7,200 gigawatts (GW) of power generating capacity by 2040 to meet new demand and replace old plants. Two thirds of that growth will be in non-OECD countries, including places like China.
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A shared vision: GE and Alstom continue a common vision

November 09, 2015
GE acquired the power and grid business of the engineering company Alstom last Monday, creating a new global industrial powerhouse. The ink on the deal is still fresh, but it isn’t the first time the two companies have met. In fact, they both sprung from the same roots.
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Energy

Power Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid

November 06, 2015
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of the highest electricity bills anywhere. Improving the reliability and efficiency of Brazil’s power stations — and also of the grid, which stretches across vast sections of the country — is a critical matter.
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Hackathon heaven—driving efficiencies on an industrial scale

November 06, 2015
Enter the new digital-industrial hothouse, where the blast-furnace of ideas and the phenomenal pace of collaborative coding will blow your mind as it produces viable software products faster than you can say digital-industrial revolution.
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Energy

The French Connection: Why GE and EDF Click

November 05, 2015
French energy giant EDF is a well-known nuclear-power-generation company, but now it wants to diversify its energy mix by expanding into renewable energy. Antoine Cahuzac, the CEO of EDF Énergies Nouvelles, the company’s renewables division, believes the newly merged GE and Alstom Energy, with its global footprint, will be the perfect partner. “Both GE and Alstom are very important for us,” Cahuzac says. “They have globally recognized technological expertise in turbines ... and their equipment is state-of-the-art.”
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Renewables

What America's First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GE’s Alstom Deal

November 04, 2015
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept bluffs and summer vacation homes. But a new attraction is quickly rising three miles off its southeastern shore.
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A little Ecomagination goes a long way

October 30, 2015
What could some of the world’s biggest companies achieve by working in concert to improve water and energy efficiency? GE predicts that collectively, organisations such as BHP Billiton, Intel, Goldman Sachs and Walmart, because of the size and reach of their business influence, could drive immediate action. So much so that by 2020 we could see a doubling in resource productivity, a threefold growth in industrial desalination and water reuse, and a massive increase in renewable-energy generation relative to other sources.
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