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Tiny Power Plants: GE Partners with Sandia Labs to Help Businesses Maximize Their PV Solar and Storage Assets

Gregor Macdonald
August 10, 2022

The weather playing havoc with summer travel schedules is something we have been getting used to for a while. It has also been affecting the way we live and challenging notions we have taken for granted — like the reliable supply of electricity. Now, suppose businesses and neighborhoods had their own small power plants that would leave them less exposed to the whims of nature and less dependent on the grid.

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GE Energy Consulting begins Microgrid Study for Town of Bedford, MA

March 16, 2021

March 16, 2021— Bedford, MA - GE Energy Consulting begins Microgrid Study for Town of Bedford

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Thinking Smaller: Microgrids And Big Data Can Bring Electricity To Rural Nigeria

Brendan Coffey
August 21, 2018
Power grids don’t come cheap: It can cost as much as $300,000 a mile to string a set of high-voltage wires. This can be expensive even in the U.S., but in the developing world the price is often prohibitive to extend traditional grids to small rural communities. Over 1 billion people lack reliable access to electricity, some 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa alone. There are very real consequences to that lack of access, including poorer healthcare options and less economic opportunity.
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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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