sustainability
Holistic Approach: GE Vernova’s Sustainability Framework Is a Plan for Successful Business and Purpose
The world has faced myriad challenges in recent years, from challenges to energy security and extreme weather events impacting the grid to the COVID-19 pandemic and the macroeconomic turbulence it caused. These have helped to catapult sustainability to the top of the boardroom agenda, with companies now striving both to succeed as a business and in contributing to solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges at the same time.
energy transition
Power Vault: GE’s New Quick-Start Power Plant in Germany Aims to Deliver a Reliable Grid
One door closes, and another opens. Not far from one of Germany’s many retired nuclear power plants is a new kind of generator, never before seen on the country’s electricity grid. Opened in March, the 300-megawatt (MW) Biblis Grid Stability Power Plant has one job and one job only: to ensure stability in tense grid situations, when supply and demand are out of balance. In the energy system of the future, such flexible operating resources are important for secure grid operation.
Gas Turbines
Powering Up: This Venerable Turbine Repair Shop in Singapore Is Preparing for the Global Stage
On the western tip of Singapore, there’s a sprawling facility that began life in the 1970s as a shipyard for tugboats and drill ships exploring the turquoise deeps of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. But the site’s days as a local repair shop are no longer. GE’s Global Repair Solutions Singapore (GRSS) is now a global hub for fixing the key components in the world’s fastest-growing fleet of H-class heavy-duty gas turbines.
Gas Turbines
Mobile Service: Switzerland Is Shoring Up Its Energy Security With GE’s Brilliant ‘Power on Wheels’
Two months ago, one of GE Gas Power’s ingenious TM2500 aeroderivative trailer-mounted gas turbines rolled into war-torn Ukraine with a mission to keep the lights on at the epicenter of Europe’s security emergency.
Lean Management
‘Once You Do It, You Can Fly’: How GE Gas Power’s Marketing Team Pioneered a New Approach to Lean Management
A few years ago, Meg Chapman attended a training program for GE senior leaders on how to implement the management philosophy known as lean. Larry Culp, who had recently joined GE as chairman and CEO, had placed lean — the idea of cutting waste and working more efficiently — at the heart of GE’s turnaround. It has since been implemented at a wide variety of manufacturing plants, where it’s streamlined production processes, improved safety, and resulted in millions of dollars in savings.
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energy transition
Force Multiplier: GE’s High-Efficiency ‘HE’ Solution Poised to Land in Australia
A gas turbine stripped down to nothing but its casing brings to mind a scene from an automaker’s assembly line: an empty chassis that’s full of potential. Next year, a GE team will seek to realize such potential at the 435-megawatt Tallawarra A power station, 60 miles south of Sydney on the New South Wales coast. The goal is to transform an existing GE turbine there into one that will be more efficient and require less natural gas to generate electricity.
decarbonization
Shipping Sunshine: GE and IHI Explore Ways to Transform Ammonia Into a Cleaner Energy Source
Japan presides over a highly developed economy, yet, lacking abundant domestic energy sources, it remains reliant on the costly import of coal, oil, and natural gas in the form of liquefied natural gas. But what if there was a way to import energy that’s a lot cleaner? And not only to Japan but all of Asia?
emissions
A Good Scrub: GE Mobile Gas Turbines Can Now Meet Some of the Most Stringent CO and NOx Emissions Regulations
The first two decades of this century haven’t been kind to Californians. The ongoing megadrought that is now in its 22nd year is the most severe since the year 800, leaving huge swaths vulnerable to record-setting wildfires. The drought has also left California’s reservoirs, and thus its hydropower supply, at alarmingly low levels.
Gas Turbines
Picture Perfect: A Lean, Digital Approach to Gas Turbine Maintenance Heads to Europe and the Middle East
There are about 7,000 GE gas turbines distributed throughout the world. Each one needs regular maintenance — a few weeks every several years in which a power plant is taken offline for service, repairs, and potential upgrades. This involves a great deal of planning to prepare for the outage. It’s meticulous in nature, due to the complexity of the technology and the environment. All this work requires an encyclopedic amount of documentation to support the activities, including technical specs, equipment lists, safety protocols, diagrams, data sheets, and quality control forms.
decarbonization
The LNG Game: GE and Shell Are Working Together to Lower Emissions at Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) export capacity has really taken off in the past decade, with big players like Australia and the United States getting into the game. More than 500 billion cubic meters of LNG were exported globally in 2021, up 44% since 2016, according to the BP Statistical Review. But with fast growth set to continue, there is a growing urgency to reduce the carbon emissions of LNG production facilities.