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Electrification Software Grid

Gear Heads: Smart Tech Helps Repair Crews Restore Power Faster

P D Olson
April 23, 2019

A mass of electrical cables may look like spaghetti to many people, but Nicolas Godingen has become an expert at picking each strand apart in his mind’s eye.

Nearly every day, the field service manager for GE in Singapore gets messages and calls from engineers who need quick guidance on emergency repairs at, say, a substation supplying electricity to an airport. Or they might ask for help with an issue affecting the national power grid.

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Electrification Software Grid

Digital Transformation: How Data Is Helping This 100-Year-Old Utility Keep Your Lights On

Samantha Shaddock
February 06, 2019

On Dec. 27, 2018, a loud boom rousted New Yorkers from their holiday revelry. While Christmas tree lights flickered inside, a scene straight out of “Ghostbusters” was unfolding outside. A canopy of smoke-tinged electric blue cloaked a section of the night sky, and Twitter exploded with photos, videos and speculation: Had aliens landed in Queens? Was the city under attack?

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Electrification Software Grid

Honey, I Shrunk The Grid: How Digital Technology Is Straightening Out The Power System's ‘Cable Spaghetti’

February 04, 2019

Electrical substations — the clusters of circuit breakers, transformers and switchgears that stick out of the ground like giant cattle prods — aren’t much to look at. What they lack in glamour, they make up for in sheer utility. Substations are the grid’s unsung heroes that toil in obscurity to keep our homes lit and phones charged. You might find one near a power plant, switching up the power generated by, say, a gas-burning facility into electricity that flows in high-voltage transmission cables to towns and cities.

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Electrification Software Grid

She Has Her Finger On Power’s Pulse: GE’s Vera Silva Talks About Building The Nervous System For Energy And Getting The Electric Grid Truly Ready For The 21st Century

Tomas Kellner
February 04, 2019

Operating a massive power grid is a bit like riding a bike, says the Swiss national grid operator Swissgrid. It’s easiest if you’re on a level surface, but things get trickier going uphill or downhill — or, in the case of the grid, when there are fluctuations in supply and demand that require power plant operators to either spin their turbines faster or ease off the throttle.

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Renewables

Winds Of Change: GE Combines Grid, Renewables Units Into A Renewable Energy Powerhouse

Tomas Kellner
January 30, 2019

Germany’s huge new offshore wind farm Merkur is an awesome sight in its own right. But it’s also a great illustration of why GE’s decision to combine its Renewable Energy business with its Grid Solutions unit, announced today, makes a lot of sense.

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electrification

Everything Is Illuminated: This Mile-High Marvel Is Keeping The Lights On In India’s Frozen North

January 25, 2019

Not so long ago, large parts of India used to be dark in satellite pictures of Earth at night. But now they twinkle with hope. In fact, the Asian country’s rapid electrification is one of the greatest development stories ever told, with around 500 million Indians gaining access to power since 2000. Most people no longer need to rise at dawn or eat by candlelight.

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Power Grid

An Eye For AI: Software Provides An Easier Path For Power Line Safety Inspections

Samantha Shaddock
Kristin Kloberdanz
October 18, 2018
In 2003, Mother Nature turned off the lights on the East Coast. The reason: a short circuit a hot summer day caused on by a chance encounter between an overgrown tree branch and a sagging power line. The problem quickly cascaded through the system, triggering the biggest blackout in North American history.
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VR

Game On: Virtual Reality Does The Heavy Lifting For Grid Technicians In Training

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 29, 2018
A woman manipulating a towering crane lifts a high-voltage circuit breaker 10 meters above the ground. She turns the crane gently and slides the hefty circuit breaker into the correct spot in an electrical substation as an instructor in the background cheers her on and offers suggestions for perfect placement. Then she takes off a virtual reality headset and the substation immediately transforms back into a tiny office conference room.
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Electrical Grid

Zapping Blackouts: India Is Giving Its National Grid An All-Seeing Eye

P D Olson
August 27, 2018
Deepak Pandey still remembers the chaos of the world’s worst electrical outage. At 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, millions of people across India suddenly found themselves waiting for hours on paralyzed trains or stuck in elevators when power went out for half of the country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants across 22 states. Traffic snarled across the capital New Delhi, backup generators ran out of diesel and the water supply became tainted because pumping stations had no backup systems to counteract the unprecedented outage.
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Weathering The Storm: This Tech Will Help Utilities Keep The Lights On

Bruce Watson
September 14, 2017
As Hurricane Harvey drenched the Texas coast in August — and Irma devastated the Caribbean and soaked Florida last week — the media was filled with scenes of flooded streets and gymnasiums crowded with people seeking shelter. But those harrowing images represent just a glimpse of the economic devastation that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warns is likely to linger for years to come. “We need to recognize it will be a new normal, a new and different normal for this entire region,” he said.
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