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GE Researchers Unveil 12 MW Floating Wind Turbine Concept

May 24, 2021
  •  Highlights $4 MM Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) ATLANTIS project during ARPA-E’s Virtual Innovation Summit
  • Project involves the design and development of optimized controls that could enable future offshore turbines 35% lower in mass compared to current designs for floating offshore turbines
  • Floating Turbines would open up possibility for offshore installations at depths beyond >60m
  • Would dramatically expand potential of US offshore wind

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Offshore Wind

Sea Change: GE Installs The Last Turbine At One Of Germany’s Largest Offshore Wind Farms

Tomas Kellner
September 17, 2018
For a while, the huge parking lot behind GE’s wind turbine factory in Saint-Nazaire, France, looked like a base for AT-AT walkers, filled with rows of giant gray-and-red wind turbine nacelles. These massive structures rise 10 meters from the ground and shelter the generator and other parts for GE’s Haliade offshore wind turbines from the elements.
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Renewables

Proving Ground: This U.K. Facility Is Preparing To Put The World’s Largest Wind Turbine To Test

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 30, 2018
Marc Sala has a huge challenge on his hands. The giant turbine he’s helping bring to market, the Haliade-X, will stand 260 meters tall, about the same height as New York’s iconic 30 Rockefeller Plaza skyscraper. With blades that are longer than a football field, the turbine will have a generator capable of producing 12 megawatts — 2.5 MW more than current turbines and enough to supply the equivalent energy needed to supply 16,000 homes.
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Software

Sea Change: This Software Is Making Offshore Choppers Fly Safer

Bruce Watson
June 06, 2017
Automation and technology have made working on an oil rig easier, but it's still a tough job — in no small part because of the weather. In the North Sea, for example, many rigs face howling gales, frigid waters and crashing waves as high as 40 feet. As a result, a very tricky part of a rig job remains getting there. Helicopter pilots must navigate complex approaches and, despite precautions and a focus on safety, there are a number of crashes every year.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2017

A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based computer that grows as it computes? Go figure!
 

 

This Is What We Call A Power Island!

[embed width="800"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI0sbiCNXtA&feature=youtu.be[/embed]

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Electrification Software Energy

Davy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data

Tomas Kellner
January 31, 2017
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures and extreme temperatures. It’s difficult, dangerous and expensive. The oil market slump of 2015-16 added an additional squeeze. “Today, anything we can do to increase the availability of the equipment goes a long way,” says Chuck Chauviere, president of drilling systems at GE Oil & Gas. “Every bit of productivity helps.”
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Energy

This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell's Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry

November 30, 2016
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.
Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where it will operate off the coast of northwestern Australia, the massive facility is 488 meters long and 74 meters wide. Its footprint is larger than an average New York City block, or, if you prefer sports, large enough for four soccer fields. .
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Electrification Software

Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From Hurricanes

November 17, 2016
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the sunscreen and her steel-toed boots and spent a week aboard an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. There, Guzzo created a “digital twin” of the pipes that connect oil wells to drill ships—equipment called the drilling riser—turning an idea her team imagined in the lab into an application that could save millions of dollars.
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes

Tomas Kellner
May 23, 2016
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live there are used to making very big things.
The world’s fastest and largest liners, including Normandie and Queen Mary 2, sprung from its dry docks. The port also serves as a transit hub for the fuselage and wings that make the double-decker Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
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