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Future of electricity

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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Future of electricity

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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Electricity

Power Up: Iraq To Add 1.5 Gigawatts To Its Grid

Tomas Kellner
September 18, 2019
A decade ago, some parts of Iraq averaged just a few hours of electricity per day. While electricity conditions have dramatically improved for most Iraqis, when the searing summer heat arrives and the thermometer climbs above 110 degrees for days in a row, power plant operators and people across the country feel the strain.
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Electricity

Titans Of Industry: These Technologies Stand Head And Shoulders Above The Rest

Samantha Shaddock
August 12, 2019
It’s an ever-shrinking world. Thanks to mobile technology, entire libraries’ worth of information fits snugly in our hands. We can shop, bank and work an eight-hour shift without leaving our homes. We attend lectures and hold meetings remotely, and visit with loved ones in distant countries. Never has life for much of the population been more convenient, or more physically confined.
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Electricity

Feeling The Burn: Inside The Boot Camp For Elite Gas Turbines

August 05, 2019
The state of South Carolina may have practically invented the punishing workout. It is home to The Citadel, the famously tough military academy — and anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” will never forget drill instructor Gunnery Sgt. Hartmann inflicting a special kind of purgatory on U.S. Marine Corps recruits at Parris Island. The city of Greenville, which is just a couple hundred miles north of the military installation, is also home to an equally grueling boot camp.
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An Introduction to Electrifying Growth in Myanmar

April 23, 2019
Electricity is opportunity. It’s the opportunity to study at night, to cook without harmful fumes, to power vital industrial equipment. That’s an opportunity that was explored in great detail at the Powering Myanmar event, hosted by GE in Nay Pyi Taw in November, 2018.
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Cooking With Gas: This Record-Breaking Technology Will Help Israel Fight Climate Change

Tomas Kellner
April 16, 2019

Located on a narrow strip of land bookended by the sea on one side and desert on the other, Israel, like many countries, is raising an alarm about climate change.

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Electrification Software Grid

She Has Her Finger On Power’s Pulse: GE’s Vera Silva Talks About Building The Nervous System For Energy And Getting The Electric Grid Truly Ready For The 21st Century

Tomas Kellner
February 04, 2019

Operating a massive power grid is a bit like riding a bike, says the Swiss national grid operator Swissgrid. It’s easiest if you’re on a level surface, but things get trickier going uphill or downhill — or, in the case of the grid, when there are fluctuations in supply and demand that require power plant operators to either spin their turbines faster or ease off the throttle.

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Electricity

Ultra Super Critical Thinking: These High-Tech Turbines Are Giving Coal A New Lease On Life

Tomas Kellner
January 25, 2019

The Ostroleka C power station, currently under construction in Poland, could be the last coal-fired power plant built in the European Union country. But that hardly means the technology inside it has no future.

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Power Outlook: Natural Gas Key To Future Power Grid

Brendan Coffey
December 06, 2018
Installed capacity of gas-fired power plants will climb in the next two decades as the structure of the power industry continues to shift from one based primarily on central generation resources to a hybrid system comprising both centralized and distributed resources, according to a new analysis by GE Power. The company released the report — which incorporates the latest New Policies Scenario from the International Energy Agency’s recent World Energy Outlook — at Power-Gen International, an annual summit of energy-industry professionals held this week in Orlando, Florida.
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