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Crushing Pollution: This Technology And Software Will Make A Huge Coal Power Plant In India Cleaner

March 06, 2017

Locals call Ramagundam the city of energy. The largest power plant in South India standing nearby along the banks of the Godavari River, for example, is capable of generating a whopping 2,600 megawatts of lifeblood electricity. That's enough to power 20 million local homes. The region has been investing in new power stations to meet its mammoth energy needs, but a major effort is also underway to modernize the existing fleet and make it efficient enough to meet the Indian government's ambitious targets to reduce air pollution.

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Software

You Are Entering Another Dimension: New Software Allows Power Plant Engineers To Peer Into The Future

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 01, 2017

A typical power plant is a very large and very complicated network of machines for making electricity that must be kept in good order. It's not an easy task.

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Part 1 Transformation: Change in the Energy Ecosystem

February 27, 2017
The global energy ecosystem is changing. That is an ecosystem where collectively the world spends over US$6 trillion annually. That amounts to roughly 6% of global GDP.
GE is a company with world-leading experience operating throughout this ecosystem, whether that’s upstream production or generation and delivery. This is a landscape we understand, and it’s a landscape which is experiencing huge transformation. Here are 9 key areas to look out for.
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Software

Metalmorphoses: This Greek Digital Smelter Uses Software To Keep A River Of Molten Aluminum Flowing

Bruce Watson
February 27, 2017

Home to the Valley of the Muses, Greece’s Mount Helicon has been hailed by Ovid and Hesiod as the font of inspiration and poetry. But today, the plains between Helicon’s foothills and the cool blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth are yielding a more prosaic kind of material: aluminum. Instead of verse, raw red bauxite — a mixture of aluminum oxides — flows freshly mined from the hills to a large smelter operated by Aluminium of Greece (AoG) in the town of Agios Nikolaos.

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Energy

Clearing The Air: This Woman Is Helping South Africa’s New Coal Power Plant Reduce Emissions

Dorothy Pomerantz
February 23, 2017
People often visit South Africa to bask in the country’s sunshine, learn about its history and discover its stunning natural beauty. But just east of the capital Pretoria, amid a maze of cranes and concrete, they’d find a different sight to write home about: the Kusile Power Station, a high-efficiency, reduced-emissions coal-fired power plant that will provide electricity to 3 million South African homes when it is up and running. They would also find GE’s Nthabiseng Kubheka, who runs the construction of a critical piece of the power plant.
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Innovation

Fast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative Companies In The World

Alaynah Tombridge
February 13, 2017
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, launched the country’s push into a powerful source of renewable energy. It also earned GE a spot on Fast Company’s annual list of the 10 most innovative companies in energy in the world.
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Fast-Fix Tech Brings Quick End to Mahakam Blackout Crisis

February 07, 2017
On July 9, 2015, a two-person GE Power Services support team in Houston, Texas came to the rescue of 1.4 million people living 15,000 kilometers away in East Kalimantan province, Indonesia.

The day before, two GE LM6000 gas turbines in operation at the PLTG Senipah (PLTGS) power plant in Teluk Pemegas village, malfunctioned cutting power to three cities – Balikpapan, Tenggarong, and Samarinda - connected to the plant’s Mahakam network.
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Energy

Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power Plants Run Cleaner

Bruce Watson
February 02, 2017
Nikola Tesla is a national hero in Serbia. Although he was born in what is now Croatia, Serbs still recall the day in 1892 when the scientist made his first, and only, visit to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But it feels like he’s never left.
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Africa

The Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa's 2nd Most Populous Country Recharge Its Economy

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2017
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life is anything but sweet.
The capital's lack of reliable power is making it hard for the business to operate. Every time the power goes out, its machines grind to a halt. Dough gets ruined. Cookies are underbaked. These interruptions are costing the company the equivalent of thousands of dollars in wasted ingredients.
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New $1.4 Billion GE Power Deal Will Supply Iraq With Reliable Electricity

January 18, 2017
Frederic Ribieras spent the last three months living and working in Baghdad. He says the Iraqi capital is a different place from what you see on the news. “Iraq is not what you see on CNN,” says Ribieras, who is GE’s vice president of Global Growth Operations. Granted, his group relies on GE’s “terrific security team,” but Ribieras says that today, “you’ll be able to feel you have a normal business day in Baghdad.”
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