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Grid

The Modernizers: At CIGRE 2022 in Paris, GE Spotlights Its Holistic Approach to Grid Modernization

Mark Brewer
August 30, 2022
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For the first time in more than 100 years, the global energy landscape is undergoing a massive transformation. The way we generate, transport, distribute, and consume electricity will change more in the next 10 years than it did in the previous 125. What was once an orderly, monolithic system pushing power out to the people, the electric grid is transforming into a two-way highway of energy from diverse sources — including wind and solar — which present new challenges to grid stability and reliability.

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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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She’s Seen The Light: This GE Engineer Is Building The Power Grid Of The Future

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 27, 2018
Vera Silva remembers warm summers in her youth — and a lot of empty sugar cones. Her small town of Vale de Cambra in Portugal ran on electricity generated by the local dam. “It would go out for hours,” she says. “All our ice cream would melt.”
In the late 1970s, when she was about 6 years old, the town connected to an electrical grid, and the blackouts came to a halt. “It was quite life-changing,” Silva says.
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Electrical Grid

Power Play: GE Brings Its Vision For The Electrical Grid To The City Of Light

Kristin Kloberdanz
August 27, 2018
The power grid — the world’s largest machine — got its start when Thomas Edison turned on the generators at Pearl Street Station in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 4, 1882. That breakthrough gave us light after the sunset, healthcare beyond pills and a doctor’s hands and, eventually, became the lifeblood for our phones and computers.
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