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Innovation

100 Percent Inspiration: GE Vernova’s World-Changing Legacy of Innovation

Will Palmer
March 06, 2024

With GE Vernova standing at the threshold of becoming a new purpose-built, energy-focused company in a few short weeks, it’s worth noting the inspiration for its name. It is, says the company, “a combination of ver, derived from verde and verdant to signal the greens and blues of the Earth, and nova, from the Latin novus, or ‘new.’” Novus also happens to be one of the roots of the word “innovation,” a pillar of GE from its founding. Innovation, then, is literally in the company’s DNA.

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Offshore Wind

Big Yellow Box: Long-Distance HVDC Transmission Will Support Next Wave of Offshore Wind Off North Sea Coast

Gregor Macdonald
April 25, 2023

Last May, four countries in Northern Europe declared their intention to install at least 65 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy in the wind-rich North Sea by 2030, up from the current 20 GW. It’s another sign that the offshore wind industry is set for an unprecedented boom as the technology improves and countries rush to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels and speed the journey to net zero.

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Grid

The Electrification Imperative: How GE Vernova Is Helping to Make the Grid Safer and More Reliable

Philippe Piron
Scott Reese
March 21, 2023

Electrical power systems, better known as the grid, have largely worked the same way for more than 100 years. The vast network of wires, switches, transformers, and other technologies were designed for a one-way power flow, moving electrons from the point of generation to the point of consumption. Today, rapid changes are putting tremendous pressure on the grid. Electricity is no longer flowing in one direction only. You might think of it as a free-for-all — from the intermittent flows of big wind and solar projects to rooftop solar panels to an EV in the driveway.

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GE and KAPES awarded contract to power South Korea’s electric grid using latest HVDC technology

July 14, 2022
  • GE and KAPES, a KEPCO-GE joint venture, to add a 500-MW high voltage direct current (HVDC) link to South Korea’s electric grid
  • The Shin-bupyeong project, located in Incheon west of Seoul, will relieve overload conditions, and strengthen the grid system
  • This latest contract award from KEPCO, in excess of USD $100 million, is the first project by GE and the KAPES consortium in South Korea using the newest Voltage-Sourced Converter (VSC) HVDC technology, and GE’s fifth VSC project in the world

Seoul, KOREA and Paris

For media inquiries, please contact:

Allison J. Cohen
External Communications, Grid Solutions
GE Vernova
+972 54 7299742
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Grid

Ghost In The Machine: Edison Lost Currents War But Won A Bigger Prize That Still Helps Keep The Lights On

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2021

The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 gave Chicago the nickname “White City” for the classical white buildings bathed, at night, by the bright glow of some 100,000 electrical lamps installed at the fair for the first time. But all that luminosity cast a shadow over one towering figure: Thomas Edison. The famous inventor and GE founder was bidding to supply electricity to those lamps, but he just lost the “war of currents” to George Westinghouse when the event’s organizers picked Westinghouse’s alternating current system over Edison’s direct current transmission lines.

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GE Consortium Awarded Contract to Build State-of-the-Art HVDC System for RWE’s Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

March 29, 2021
  • GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine awarded the full contract for the high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system
  • Once operational, the Sofia offshore wind farm will be able to generate enough renewable energy to meet the electricity needs of almost 1.2 million average UK homes

Paris, FRANCE – March 29, 2021 — A specially formed consortium of GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutio

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Sue Vincent
Sofia Offshore Wind Farm
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Allison J. Cohen
External Communications, Grid Solutions
GE Vernova
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Chua Mun Yuen
Sembcorp Marine
+65 6971 7039
[email protected]
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Renewable energy

High Voltage On The High Seas: Huge North Sea Station Will Allow Germany To Capture More Wind Power

Karsten Strauss
November 18, 2020
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Like many countries around the world, Germany is in the middle of an ambitious energy transition, aiming to generate 80% of its power from renewable sources by 2050. One steppingstone on that journey is a huge yellow structure rising more than 60 feet from the slate-gray waters of the North Sea some 80 kilometers off the country’s coast.

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GE Consortium to Build State-of-the-Art HVDC System for RWE Sofia Offshore Wind Farm

July 09, 2020
  • World’s number two in offshore wind further strengthens its renewables business in the UK with 1.4GW Sofia milestone
  • GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions and Sembcorp Marine chosen as preferred suppliers of the high voltage direct current transmission system
  • More than 50% of the components will be manufactured in local facilities, with extensive opportunities for the UK supply chain

09 July 2020

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Lothar Lambertz
RWE
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Sue Vincent
Sofia
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Allison J. Cohen
External Communications, Grid Solutions
GE Vernova
+972 54 7299742
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David Wong
Sembcorp Marine
+65 92311338
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Electricity

A High-Wire Act: What It Takes To Bring More Wind And Solar Power To Cities

Tomas Kellner
November 24, 2019
Here’s a bit of old news: The world wants more renewable power. The tricky work of feeding it into our homes, schools and offices doesn't often make the headlines — but figuring it out is key to changing the energy mix.
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Mix It Up: Renewable Power Is Rising And This Tech Will Help It Shine

Sam Worley
David Hochman
September 26, 2019

Many countries have set ambitious goals for getting their electricity from renewable sources. Germany, for example, wants to generate 65% of its energy from renewables by 2030. Sweden wants to achieve 100% renewable energy by 2040.

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