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Wind Power

All That Jazz: GE Opens Wind Turbine Blade Test Center At NASA Rocket Factory In New Orleans

Tomas Kellner
November 14, 2018
There are few places in the world like NASA’s rocket factory in New Orleans, where the U.S. space agency and its contractors are building the Space Launch System. It’s the most powerful rocket ever designed — and may one day take astronauts as far as Mars. Known as the Michoud Assembly Facility, the plant covers an area equal to 31 American football fields, including several soaring high-bay areas where workers stack silver and orange rocket segments like Jenga blocks.
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Size Matters: The Next Big Thing In Wind Turbines

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2017
In the race to supply the world with carbon-free renewable energy, there have been encouraging signs in wind power, with costs there falling by half over the last decade. How might a turbine manufacturer get those prices even lower? Go big.
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How A Wind Turbine Works

August 24, 2017
As countries grow more populace, the demand for electricity becomes strenuous to meet especially amidst global warming. Vietnam has come up with a master plan to undertake this problem by optimizing their most valuable resource, the wind. The 3,400km stretch of coastline could potentially provide 500-1000 kWh/m2 of wind power per year.
The infographic captures the mechanics of a wind turbine and exemplifies Vietnam’s 7th Power Master Plan to meet the rapidly growing demand for electricity in a sustainable fashion.
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Wind in the Willogoleches

Natalie Filatoff
August 07, 2017
An incredible wind resource and progressive state-government policies sowed the seeds of South Australia’s renewable-energy bonanza. Now GE’s latest wind turbine, a new wind farm and a fresh take on a power partnership are redrawing the lines of productivity for renewable energy on the edge of the Flinders Ranges.
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75 turbines lead the wind parade

Jane Nicholls
June 27, 2017
It’s spinning enough energy to power the equivalent of 120,000 homes. It was the first wind-farm project signed after restoration of the renewable energy target (RET) in 2015. Its 75 GE 3.2-103 turbines add up to 240MW, making it the third-largest wind farm in the Southern Hemisphere.
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To build a wind farm, it takes a village...

April 05, 2017
Wind-farm prospector Frank Boland first met with farmers at the Lion of Waterloo in 2009, to discuss them hosting turbines on their land. Late the previous year, Boland, who leads the development team for renewable-energy company Infigen Energy, had used meta-scale wind modelling to identify Bodangora, near Wellington in central NSW, as a prime area to farm wind.
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Indonesia Jump Starts Rural Electrification Plan

February 03, 2017
More than four million Indonesian families living in isolated rural, and island locations, will soon have access to reliable, affordable electricity for the first time.
Communities in the remote parts of Lampung, Pontianak, Bangka, Riau, Belitung, Ampenan, Paya Pasir, and Nias provinces, are the beneficiaries of a new energy plan announced by the Indonesian state utility, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) on December 8, 2016.
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Silverton’s new treasure: wind energy

January 19, 2017
A high-energy blockbuster is about to start production just outside Silverton, the historic silver-mining town and famed film location near Broken Hill, NSW. Movies shot in the quintessential Australian outback setting include Mad Max and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The village will soon be abuzz again, as hundreds of workers arrive to harvest a fortune that’s way more certain than either silver mining or movie making: wind energy.
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Renewables

What America's First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GE’s Alstom Deal

November 04, 2015
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept bluffs and summer vacation homes. But a new attraction is quickly rising three miles off its southeastern shore.
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