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She’s Seen The Light: This GE Engineer Is Building The Power Grid Of The Future

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 27, 2018
Vera Silva remembers warm summers in her youth — and a lot of empty sugar cones. Her small town of Vale de Cambra in Portugal ran on electricity generated by the local dam. “It would go out for hours,” she says. “All our ice cream would melt.”
In the late 1970s, when she was about 6 years old, the town connected to an electrical grid, and the blackouts came to a halt. “It was quite life-changing,” Silva says.
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Electrical Grid

Power Play: GE Brings Its Vision For The Electrical Grid To The City Of Light

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 27, 2018
The power grid — the world’s largest machine — got its start when Thomas Edison turned on the generators at Pearl Street Station in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 4, 1882. That breakthrough gave us light after the sunset, healthcare beyond pills and a doctor’s hands and, eventually, became the lifeblood for our phones and computers.
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Electrical Grid

Zapping Blackouts: India Is Giving Its National Grid An All-Seeing Eye

P D Olson
August 27, 2018
Deepak Pandey still remembers the chaos of the world’s worst electrical outage. At 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, millions of people across India suddenly found themselves waiting for hours on paralyzed trains or stuck in elevators when power went out for half of the country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants across 22 states. Traffic snarled across the capital New Delhi, backup generators ran out of diesel and the water supply became tainted because pumping stations had no backup systems to counteract the unprecedented outage.
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Microgrids

Thinking Smaller: Microgrids And Big Data Can Bring Electricity To Rural Nigeria

Brendan Coffey
August 21, 2018
Power grids don’t come cheap: It can cost as much as $300,000 a mile to string a set of high-voltage wires. This can be expensive even in the U.S., but in the developing world the price is often prohibitive to extend traditional grids to small rural communities. Over 1 billion people lack reliable access to electricity, some 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone. There are very real consequences to that lack of access, including poorer healthcare options and less economic opportunity.
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Mission Critical: GE’s New Digital Center In Atlanta Is Using Data From Power Plants To Spot Trouble And Save Money

Tomas Kellner
August 16, 2018
Justin Eggart and fellow engineers working inside GE Power’s Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta were halfway through their shift a few months ago when they noticed something strange. The center, the largest of its kind in the world, looks a lot like a smaller version of NASA’s mission control center. It has banks of computers and a wall-to-wall, colorful LED screen flashing real-time operating conditions inside 5,000 turbines, generators and other equipment churning away at more than 950 power plants located in 75 countries and serving 350 million people.
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Electrification Software Energy

Knowledge Is Power: It Takes More Than Software...

Steven Martin
August 15, 2018
In the time it takes the average person to read this sentence, 36 petabytes of IoT data, (an amount roughly equivalent to 720 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text) will be created. That number will double by the end of 2019. During lunch today (for those fortunate enough to take lunch), GE Power Digital’s software will successfully manage 864 million kW hours of electricity (enough to power the city of Atlanta…for 2 months).
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power

Answering Pakistan’s Burning Question: How To Ignite Lignite?

Amy Kover
July 13, 2018

Buried 1,000 feet below the parched Thar Desert in Pakistan lies more fuel energy than all the known oil in Iran and Saudi Arabia combined. Just a small fraction of this 175-billion-ton lignite coal reserve is plentiful enough to supply one-fifth of Pakistan’s current energy levels for 50 years.

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Navy

This Ship Is Fly: Why Powering Ships With Modified Jet Engines Has Been A Brilliant Idea

Tomas Kellner
July 02, 2018
The U.S. Navy’s sophisticated and versatile littoral combat ships (LCSs) can chase down speedy enemy boats in shallow waters, hunt for diesel submarines in the open ocean and defuse mines at any depth. The Navy plans to build 30 LCSs, and half of them will be powered by a pair of GE turbines originally developed for a different branch of the military: the U.S. Air Force (more on that later). The Navy commissioned the latest one from the GE batch, the USS Manchester (LCS-14), on May 26, and eight more powered by GE are set to follow.
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Energy

Power Pool: Here’s What It Takes To Electrify West Africa

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 02, 2018

In parts of West Africa, an act as simple as walking into a room and turning on a light can be something of a luxury. Only half the population has access to electricity, which means 188 million people live without basic amenities such as light and power.

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Renewable energy

New Power Generation: Why America’s Largest Electric Utility Is Adding Renewables To Its Energy Mix

June 28, 2018
Electric power was still a luxury few could afford when American industrialist James Buchanan Duke and his partners decided to build a clever system of lakes and dams on the Catawba River, which runs through the Carolinas. Their first power station, which came online in 1904, used the river’s bottled-up energy to generate a meager 6,600 kilowatts.
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