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The GE Store Network

June 08, 2016
GE is an organisation where talent and knowledge combine, where digital industry provides the backbone to collaboration, innovation and imagination. Explore the GE network, and appreciate just some of the technologies which feed into the heart of a digital industrial company: the GE Store.
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Hydropower

Could This Be The Most Extreme Power Plant In The World?

Tomas Kellner
June 07, 2016

Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as much electricity as a nuclear power plant and, at the flip of a switch, act as a giant battery. “It’s the only grid-scale method of storing energy,” says Maryse François, the hydrotechnology leader at GE Renewable Energy, the company that developed the technology powering the site.

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Renewables

This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source In The U.S.

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.
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Energy

Power Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid

November 06, 2015
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of the highest electricity bills anywhere. Improving the reliability and efficiency of Brazil’s power stations — and also of the grid, which stretches across vast sections of the country — is a critical matter.
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