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GE Renewable Energy and PKN ORLEN sign MOU on offshore wind in Poland

August 25, 2021
  • Parties wish to strengthen cooperation to enhance industrial footprint to support the country’s growing offshore wind potential
  • GE Renewable Energy will provide its expertise to strengthen ORLEN’s competitiveness to compete for new offshore wind leases in Poland
  • GE has long history in Poland with over 5,000 employees working in multiple GE businesses, including in the renewable energy sector

Warsaw, Poland, 25 August 2021 - GE Renewable Energy and PKN ORLEN announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explo

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Two New AOPS Milestones for the RCN – Powered by GE

August 25, 2021
  • As the lead ship in Canada’s program to acquire eight Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ships (AOPS) for the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Harry DeWolf, was commissioned into the RCN on June 26th, 2021.
  • The second of the class, the future HMCS Margaret Brooke was delivered to the RCN, July 2021.
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GE Renewable Energy, partners complete successful trials in automated blade finishing program

July 29, 2021
  • GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power, NREL test innovations under pilot project on blade sections
  • Successful trials completed at LM Wind Power Grand Forks factory on an actual wind turbine blade in production
  • Program partners looking at industrializing the new technology

Niskayuna, NY, July 29, 2021 - GE Renewable Energy, LM Wind Power and GE Research in partnership with the U.S.

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GE Hitachi Awarded Long-Term Outage Services Contract by Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant

July 28, 2021

WILMINGTON, NC—July 28, 2021—The Leibstadt Nuclear Power Plant (KKL) has awarded a long-term contract extension to GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to provide outage services for the plant in Leibstadt, Switzerland.   

“We have supported KKL with outage and inspection services since it went into operation in 1984 and we are proud to continue this strong working relationship,” said John Mackleer, Senior Vice President, Field Services for GEH.  

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GE’s HA Gas Turbine Fleet Achieves 50 Customers and One Million Operating Hours

July 28, 2021
  • GE’s HA technology ordered by more than 50 power producers to operate their combined cycle power plants in twenty countries generating approximately more than 26 gigawatts (GW) of power
  • GE’s H-Class supports shift to producing more sustainable power, including pathways to near-zero carbon operations through these new gas turbines that can use pre-combustion hydrogen fuels and post-combustion carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration
  • In 2021, HA-powered projects secured recent industry awards including “2021 Plant of the Year”, “
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GE Renewable Energy announces joint development agreement for weather technology with Whiffle

July 22, 2021
  • Agreement to use Whiffle’s ultra-fine atmospheric Large Eddy Simulation (LES) modeling for wind energy applications
  • Technology will be used to optimize wind turbine siting and enable improved AEP

Schenectady, NY, July 22, 2021 – GE Renewable Energy announced today that it has entered into an Joint Development Agreement (JDA) with Whiffle, a Netherlands-based weather forecasting technology firm, for application of Whiffle’s ultra-fine atmospheric Large Eddy Simulation (LES) modeling for GE’s wind energy applications.

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First Nations Power Authority and GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy announce collaboration on recruiting for 30 field services jobs in Ontario’s nuclear sector

July 22, 2021

Indigenous Canadians are encouraged to apply for skilled career oppportunities that will support the rollout of the future next generation nuclear fleet in Canada.

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EU supports GE’s development of a 245 kV g3 circuit-breaker to accelerate decarbonization of Europe’s electrical grid

July 22, 2021
  • EU’s LIFE program recognizes potential of GE Renewable Energy’s g3 insulating and switching gas as an alternative to sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) to help significantly cut global greenhouse gas emissions
  • This is the second GE g3 gas project to be co-funded by the EU within two years
  • New g3 gas 245 kV circuit-breaker will be scalable to other high-voltage levels across Europe’s electrical grids and help utilities get ready for stricter fluorinated (F)-gas regulations

Paris,

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Allison J. Cohen
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Calpine and GE Renewable Energy complete Santa Ana storage project in Southern California

July 21, 2021

Santa Ana, CA, July 21, 2021 - Calpine and GE Renewable Energy announced today the completion of the Santa Ana Storage Project (SASP) in Southern California. The project contains a 20 MW/80 MWh (4hr) standalone battery energy storage system using GE’s Reservoir energy storage technology. The system, now in commercial operations, is supported by a 20-year Resource Adequacy Power Purchase Agreement (PPA). The project will be able to provide energy to up to 12,000 households during peak events, and/or 24,000 households during normal load conditions.

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Communications, Hydro Power
GE Vernova
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GE wins multiple orders of high-voltage power transformers and reactors from India’s largest transmission utility

July 20, 2021
  • GE wins multiple orders of 765 kV transformers and reactors from Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL)
  • GE will produce 45 units of 765 kV transformers and reactors for the new substations to be set up in the Indian state of Rajasthan by PGCIL, for evacuating 8.1 gigawatt (GW) of green power from the state’s solar energy zones
  • The project’s transformers and reactors will be supplied by GE’s Grid Solutions’ state-of-the-art power transformer manufacturing facility in Vadodara, India

New Delhi, India and Paris, France, July 20, 2021:<

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