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Shaken But Strong: GE Tech, Donations Are Helping Indonesian Islands Recover From Massive Quakes

Brendan Coffey
December 20, 2018

The rescue effort in Sajang began as soon as the ground stopped moving.

On Aug. 5, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the mountain village on the Indonesian island of Lombok, leaving behind chaos and rubble. Search-and-rescue teams pulled their first survivor, a man named Hendri, from the ruins of his home as a crowd cheered: “God is the greatest!” Not long after, a 10-year-old girl was found alive and rushed to a local hospital.

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power

GE Names New Leadership For Its Power Units, John Rice Returns To GE

Tomas Kellner
November 19, 2018
Two weeks ago, GE said that it intends to split Power into two units: GE Gas Power, comprising the Gas Power Systems and Power Services divisions, and GE Power Portfolio, which will hold Power’s Steam, Grid Solutions, GE Hitachi Nuclear and Power Conversion operations. The company also announced that it intends to consolidate the current Power headquarters structure into GE Gas Power to create a more simplified business structure that can best serve its customers.
Today GE announced new leadership for its reorganized GE Power units.
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blockchain

Trading Neighbors: A New Study Will Look At Blockchain’s Potential To Power Local Energy Markets

P D Olson
November 07, 2018
Imagine: On a hot, sunny day, a popular neighborhood coffee shop is teeming with people, its air conditioner blasting to keep up. Just next door, an empty home with solar panels on the roof is drawing power from the sun without using it, as the owners have decamped on a two-week beach vacation.
Today’s energy infrastructure isolates the buildings from each other. But in the future, they could be doing business automatically, minute-by-minute, thanks to a technology called blockchain.
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Renewable energy

Switch It Up: This Tech Helps Take The World's Largest Offshore Wind Turbine To A New Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 25, 2018
The Haliade-X turbine has the potential to blow the offshore wind industry to the next level.
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Electricity

Let There Be Light: How GE Rebuilt An Iraqi Power Plant Destroyed By ISIS

Amy Kover
October 22, 2018
In March 2017, the GE Power team returned to Al Qayara — an Iraqi town about 46 miles from Mosul, a city then still occupied by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — to see how the Al Qayara Power Plant was faring. Though the fighters had fled the area and would soon depart Mosul, the team found little to celebrate. The plant was in ruins. Six turbines sat dormant amid an expanse of desolate desert. Oil fields — set on fire by ISIS — burned in the distance.
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Power Grid

An Eye For AI: Software Provides An Easier Path For Power Line Safety Inspections

Samantha Shaddock
Kristin Kloberdanz
October 18, 2018
In 2003, Mother Nature turned off the lights on the East Coast. The reason: a short circuit a hot summer day caused on by a chance encounter between an overgrown tree branch and a sagging power line. The problem quickly cascaded through the system, triggering the biggest blackout in North American history.
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Nuclear Energy

Full Steam Ahead: Egypt Picks World’s Largest Steam Turbines From GE For Its New Nuclear Power Plant

Tomas Kellner
October 09, 2018

Like many medieval towns in France, Belfort has its share of soaring church domes and spires. But the tallest structures here don’t serve any religion — they are temples of industry.

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asia

GE To Develop A Power Plant In Bangladesh In A $350 Million Deal

Tomas Kellner
October 02, 2018
Like many rapidly developing countries, Bangladesh needs more reliable and affordable electricity to power its growth. That's why the South Asian country is racing to massively increase its power-generation capacity, adding 11,600 megawatts to reach 24,000 megawatts by 2021, according to the Bangladesh Power Development Board.
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Electricity

Cooking With Gas: This New GE Turbine Is Lighting Up The Future Of Power Generation

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2018
In the Middle Ages, spices arriving from the East began to revolutionize European cuisine. Those who could afford to were suddenly eating meals seasoned with pepper, cloves and cinnamon. If electricity were a flavor, you could say something similar is happening right now to the power market. Gone are the old days, when most electricity was supplied by meat-and-potatoes sources like coal, nuclear and hydropower plants. The energy mix today involves an ever-increasing share of zesty energy sources like wind and solar.
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analytics

Take A Load Off: How Software Is Cutting The Power Bill Of An Iconic French Plant

September 12, 2018
The city of Belfort in northeastern France knows all about speed and power. The hardworking town, which lies between the Vosges and Jura mountains, has made railway locomotives for nearly 150 years. The first TGVs, France’s iconic intercity high-speed trains, also rolled out of Belfort.
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