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powership

Turn Me On: The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
A floating power plant isn’t something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you’d see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are bobbing in the ocean.
They might look odd, but for people in growing economies around the world, the ships are a welcome sight. The floating power plants can dock in the harbor, crank up their turbines and start quickly generating electricity for customers on land.
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Electricity

Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The Digital Power Plant

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that world energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040 and that much of that growth will come from countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
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Nuclear Power

2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside. Here's Why.

September 16, 2016
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it's anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the average man. A pair of them, each capable of producing 1,770 megawatts—is now set to cross the English Channel to provide energy for generations.
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power

How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2016
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon declared that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
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Cultural Intelligence Offers Diverse Rewards

September 09, 2016
We live in a world beyond borders. Our ability to work is no longer limited by geography, but only by our ambition. The ease of international travel alongside the vast opportunity of our digital landscape provides a connected world of global collaboration. A breakfast meeting in Malaysia turns into a conference call with London, then a day ended with a face-to-face meeting with clients in Indonesia.
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Energy

GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon

Tomas Kellner
September 01, 2016
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert Armstrong, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), the school’s hub for energy research, education and outreach.
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machines

Nuts For Bolts: Claudia Meyer Makes Art From Machine Parts

Tomas Kellner
August 31, 2016

Artist Claudia Meyer isn’t your typical Parisian artist. She has spent the last eight years working out of a studio based inside a factory located in the industrial Paris suburb of La Courneuve, far from the Louvre or Musée Rodin. That’s because she finds inspiration in all things industrial and mechanical. Her paintings, sculptures, installations and even furniture incorporate turbine wheels and blades, massive springs from bullet trains, blueprints, and nuts and bolts.

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Earnings

Q2 Results: GE Gets A Lift From Strong Performance By Aviation, Power Units

Chris English
July 22, 2016
GE released second quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.51 per share, up 65 percent compared to the second quarter of last year. GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt also reaffirmed the company’s operating framework for the year.
The company also announced that it has returned $18 billion to shareowners for the year to date, including $13.7 billion through a share buyback and $3.7 billion through dividends. In the quarter, GE’s backlog of orders grew to a record $320 billion, up 17 percent since the 2Q’15.
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AC-DC

Back In Black: At A German Wind Farm, Direct Current From The Company Edison Founded Makes A Comeback

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 19, 2016
The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago was a high point in American history. The fair boasted the first Ferris wheel, the first moving walkways and the introduction of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. But for many visitors, the highlight of the six-month-long event was the dazzling lights.
At night, the fair was lit by hundreds of thousands of incandescent bulbs. Although GE founder Thomas Edison had patented the light bulb 14 years earlier, no one had seen a light exhibit on the scale of the Chicago fair.
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Electrification Software Energy

Software Will Light The Way To Cleaner Electricity: Q&A With GE Power’s Digital Chief Ganesh Bell

Tomas Kellner
July 18, 2016
Henry Ford’s Model T looks like no car on the road today and the Wright Flyer has been rightfully retired in the Smithsonian. And yet another piece of technology that predates them both—the electric grid—still looks like a network that its designer, Thomas Edison, would recognize.
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