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Renewable Power

Full Steam Ahead: This Biomass-Burning Plant Will Inch Japan Closer To Its Renewables Goals

February 05, 2020
As a modern-day wonder of reinvention, Japan’s power sector rivals David Bowie, Madonna and Prince. In the decade prior to 2011, fossil fuels and nuclear power dominated the country’s grid, generating close to 90% of the island nation’s electricity. But following the devastating tsunami in 2011, Japanese authorities shut down the country’s 11 nuclear reactors (which represented about 30% of Japanese electricity at the time) and boosted imports of liquified natural gas (LNG), fuel oil and coal to burn in the country’s power plants.
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Bridging Cambodia’s Vast Urban-Rural Energy Divide

GE Staff
August 21, 2017
Access to reliable, affordable power is the top “wish list” item for many town and village leaders throughout Cambodia.
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The government plans to install electricity lines to all of Cambodia’s 14,000+ villages by 2020. 85% of Cambodia’s 15 million population live in the countryside. 
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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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Using Grass As A Greener Source of Energy

January 07, 2015
Using Grass As A Greener Source of Energy
We are living in a world where energy is crucial and we can no longer rely solely on our natural resources for fuel. Innovation has opened up new possibilities for producing energy and at GE, the search for alternatives sources of energy is an ongoing process.

Here we share a great example of such an undertaking.
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Youth Lighting the Way in Africa

November 04, 2014
Converting urine into electricity, creating a more efficient solar cell, distributing a do-it-yourself solar lamp — these are just a few of the innovations that are helping to address Africa’s energy gap.
 
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