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Tie-Up Between GE Digital And Opus One Will Help Utilities Bring More Distributed Energy Resources Online

Tomas Kellner
December 21, 2021
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The energy transition to bring more renewable energy online is a big task that involves big challenges and calls for big ideas. “The electric grid is the largest machine built by humans,” says Pat Byrne, CEO of GE Digital. “When you put renewable energy from many different sources on the grid, you have to orchestrate them, because the sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow, but people still expect highly reliable, low-cost energy that’s always available.”

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When The Wind Doesn’t Blow: How Upgraded Gas Turbines Can Help Bring More Renewables Online

Rebecca M. Oliver
August 12, 2021

Like many countries, the U.K. is increasingly relying on renewables for electricity. And while the shift to lower-carbon power includes some eye-grabbing projects — like the world’s largest offshore wind farm, proposed for the Dogger Bank site off England’s north coast — it’s also rewriting the playbook for other modes of power generation.

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GE Releases Position Paper on Accelerating South Africa’s Energy Transition with Gas Power and Renewables

June 08, 2021
  • Whitepaper discusses South Africa’s urgent need for affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy, to spur industrialization while addressing its climate change ambitions
  • Highlights how flexible gas power will play a critical role in South Africa’s future energy mix
  • Underscores how gas power complements renewables with a clear path to decarbonization through coal to gas switching
  • Recommends LNG as fuel of choice for implementation of South Africa’s Gas to Power program

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GE Releases Position on Climate Change: Calls for Accelerated Deployment of Renewables & Gas Power To Drive Impactful, Faster Decarbonization

December 15, 2020
  • Whitepaper on energy transition builds on GE’s commitment to carbon neutrality in its  operations by 2030 and announced intention to exit the new-build coal power market[1]
  • Renewables supported by gas-fired power and ongoing coal-to-gas conversion most impactful way to reduce carbon emissions in near term
  • Multiple pathways to operate with low or zero-carbon emissions through gas-fired offerings including through hydrogen and carbon capture technologies
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Power Up: New Substations Are Helping Close The Electricity Gap In India

Virginia Citrano
November 13, 2019
Located in the Indian state of West Bengal, Ramnagar is a small town just a few miles from quiet beaches and windswept dunes lining the Bay of Bengal. While those nearby coastal towns (some 100 miles southwest of Kolkata) attract beach-loving tourists, they’re nowhere near as popular as other Indian beach destinations, such as Goa. One of the reasons: The area doesn’t have reliable electricity.
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The Fixers: How A Repair Shop In Singapore Is Fueling Asia’s Electrification

Brendan Coffey
November 06, 2019
How do you switch on the lights for people in the Asia-Pacific region who don’t have electricity — nearly 50 million of them? Companies and governments have been trying to solve that riddle for decades. It turns out that part of the solution lies with GE and its new gas turbine repair and development center in Singapore.
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In The Money: How GE’s Latest Gas Turbine Could Help Save Florida Customers $300 Million

Tomas Kellner
October 03, 2019

When engineer Sanford Moss built GE’s first gas turbine more than a century ago, things didn’t go exactly as the company planned. The machine used too much fuel and produced too little power. Moss put the design on the shelf until the outbreak of World War I, when the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA’s predecessor, realized it could use the device to supercharge aircraft engines and gain superiority in the air.

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London Calling: This British Power Plant Will Be Reborn As A Lean, Mean Electricity-Generating Machine

March 26, 2019

The growth of renewable power means that the owners of the world’s gas turbines have to accept some Darwinian logic: Adapt or die. The challenge is particularly acute in the U.K., where electricity production from wind, solar and hydropower installations is booming. The total installed capacity of the country’s renewables sector now exceeds that of fossil-fuel-fired generation, or power plants that burn coal, gas and oil.

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Bad CO2, Good CO2: GE Scientists Use Climate Change Culprit To Make Cleaner Electricity

Fred Guterl
November 11, 2018
It’s one thing to design something on paper, another to build it. GE engineers got that first thrill of seeing their designs take shape in San Antonio in October, when GE partner Southwest Research Institute broke ground on a two-year-old project to build the world’s first 10-megawatt power plant using supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of steam.
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Guiding Light: This Software Is Helping Modernize New Delhi’s Power Grid

Fred Guterl
June 18, 2018

Dust storms are a fact of life in northern India, but this spring the damage has been the worst in two decades, according to the BBC. In early April, a storm brought traffic to a standstill in New Delhi and sent pedestrians scurrying for shelter.

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