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Renewables

This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source In The U.S.

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.
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power

Supercritical Thinking: To Achieve World’s Best Performance, This Coal-Fired Power Plant Applies Bulletlike Pressures To Steam

January 20, 2016
For most people, the term “next generation” isn't the first thing that comes to mind when they think of coal. After all, everything about this black sedimentary rock composed of ancient fossilized plants is old.
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Q&A with Jeff Immelt: Exciting Opportunities in ASEAN (Part 1)

January 06, 2016
Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, recently visited ASEAN and spoke to a few journalists here in Indonesia about the important issues the region is facing. Here are some key takeaways from the Q&A session that highlights GE’s presence in ASEAN as well as the challenges and opportunities of a volatile market.
1.       Why was the ASEAN trip (ID & VN) important to you, and GE?

 
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Africa

Mind The Gap: Here’s How You Take On A Power Crisis The Size Of A Continent

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
One easy way to see Africa’s power problem is by looking at a picture of the Earth from space at night. While other inhabited regions of the world glow and sparkle like jewels in a black velvet display case, Africa remains largely dark. That’s because the continent’s 1.1 billion inhabitants have at their disposal just 185 gigawatts (GW) of installed power-generation capacity. The United States, by comparison, can draw on 1,000 GW for 300 million people.
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Renewable Power

Let It Blow: How Brazilian Wind Farms Benefit From GE’s Largest Acquisition

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
South America’s vast Pampas stretch over three countries and cover an area larger than France. Farmers in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have long discovered the appeal of the flat and fertile lowlands. Wind farm operators, especially in Brazil, the continent’s largest economy, are now taking a second look.
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best of 2015

Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
January 04, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet traveled to the high plains of Colorado to document how GE was testing its most advanced locomotive, pilot and photographer Adam Senatori visited three airshows on as many continents to get close to the latest planes powered by GE jet engines, and Chris New climbed to the top of an experimental wind turbine in the Mojave desert.
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2015

One More Time: New Year Eve's Saudi Power Deal Caps Off Historic 2015 For GE

Seth Martin
December 31, 2015
GE finished a historic year of massive deals with one more win before the ball dropped in New York's Times Square. On the last day of the year, the company announced a landmark power contract with the Saudi Electric Company valued at nearly $1 billion.
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future of energy

The Real Point Break: Where The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Prove Their Mettle

December 15, 2015
In parts of the world like the US and Brazil where electric current oscillates at 60 Hz, there’s no larger and more efficient gas turbine than a machine GE calls 7HA. So efficient, in fact, that when it swallows and burns 3.3 tons of air mixed with natural gas - equivalent to 23 tanker trucks - out comes a mere 6.3 fluid ounces of pollution, a volume slightly larger than a half- can of soda.
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future of energy

From Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like Like This

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 11, 2015
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the next 20 years, by an additional 3,000 gigawatts (GW) of power-generation capacity.
Getting there will require some creative engineering — both reimagining the usual suspects like turbines and generators as well as deploying new cloud-based digital tools and data analytics. GE has a few ideas.
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STEM

Present Perfect: When Reality Trumps Imagination

Thomas Herles
December 11, 2015
In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of comic books called Adventures in Science. “In the public relations field, although were all aware of the adult fear that comic books were producing a crop of juvenile delinquents, we couldn’t escape the conclusion that the medium had attractive possibilities for mass communications,“ said a 1953 story published in General Electric Review, a
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