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Bridging Cambodia’s Vast Urban-Rural Energy Divide

GE Staff
August 21, 2017
Access to reliable, affordable power is the top “wish list” item for many town and village leaders throughout Cambodia.
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The government plans to install electricity lines to all of Cambodia’s 14,000+ villages by 2020. 85% of Cambodia’s 15 million population live in the countryside. 
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Laos, The Minnow Nation with Gigantic Development Ambitions

August 21, 2017
Although it is one of the smallest nations in ASEAN, Laos boasts one of the highest economic growth rates in the region today. Propelled by fast-developing energy, tourism, manufacturing, and agriculture sectors, major transport projects, and young population, Laos is projected to maintain its current seven percent growth rate for the next two-three years.
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Renewables

Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
April 20, 2017
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7 million inhabitants, fits on an island sliced off from the mainland by the waterway and its tributaries. Just west of the city, the river’s surface is so wide it could pass for a sea.
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Hydro

Hydropower Catches The Digital Wave

Richard Taylor International Hydropower Association Ceo
Debora Frodl GE
March 24, 2017

Digital solutions promise to improve economic and environmental outcomes, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Richard Taylor, CEO of the International Hydropower Association.

 

 
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Fast-Fix Tech Brings Quick End to Mahakam Blackout Crisis

February 07, 2017
On July 9, 2015, a two-person GE Power Services support team in Houston, Texas came to the rescue of 1.4 million people living 15,000 kilometers away in East Kalimantan province, Indonesia.

The day before, two GE LM6000 gas turbines in operation at the PLTG Senipah (PLTGS) power plant in Teluk Pemegas village, malfunctioned cutting power to three cities – Balikpapan, Tenggarong, and Samarinda - connected to the plant’s Mahakam network.
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best of 2016

10 Tech Stories From 2016 You Should Know About

Tomas Kellner
December 27, 2016
A power plant hidden in a cave drilled deep into the Swiss Alps, a jet engine so large it could swallow Shaquille O’Neal with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders and DNA research that's helping doctors fine-tune the immune system to fight disease. These are some of the best science stories from 2016 that involved GE technology. Take a look.
 

Mountain Of Power
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Powering Up “The Battery of Southeast Asia”

October 05, 2016
Electricite du Laos and GE sign MoU to support long-term development of the nation’s energy sector
While it is one of the smallest countries in ASEAN, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) plans to punch well above its weight as an energy producer and exporter in the region.

Through existing, and new hydropower stations to be built along the Mekong River, Lao PDR aims to boost hydropower generation capacity to 12,000 MW by 2020 (a four-fold jump from 2014 levels).
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Hydro

Dammed If You Don’t: Why The US Will Lose Big Without Investing In Hydropower

Kristina Johnson
September 28, 2016

Hydropower - energy that comes from water flowing through turbines in dams - is referred to as America’s first renewable electricity source. Kristina Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Cube Hydro, GE Ecomagination Advisory Board Member, and former Under Secretary of Energy, explains how this 100-year old energy source needs a facelift.

 

 

  1. Do all the dams in the U.S. produce energy? 

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Five Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 09, 2016
Spiders’ webs aren’t just deadly insect traps but also sophisticated information networks, Costa Rica has been running on renewable electricity for 76 days straight, and researchers in Belgium and the U.S. have assembled the first genetic tree of beer. Cheers to science, but do read on!
 

 

The Itsy Bitsy Spider’s Web Is A Sophisticated Information Network, Scientists Say
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This Drone Visited The World's No. 1 Hydropower Plant. Here's What It Found.

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
The American Society of Civil Engineers calls Brazil’s Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The massive structure holds a row of 20 giant turbines, half of them manufactured by GE Renewable Energy. In 2008, they generated 94,684 megawatts, then the largest amount of power ever from a single dam. Itaipu alone supplies Brazil with a quarter of its power, and Paraguay with 90 percent of its electricity needs.
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