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Electricity

Let There Be Light: How GE Rebuilt An Iraqi Power Plant Destroyed By ISIS

Amy Kover
October 22, 2018
In March 2017, the GE Power team returned to Al Qayara — an Iraqi town about 46 miles from Mosul, a city then still occupied by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — to see how the Al Qayara Power Plant was faring. Though the fighters had fled the area and would soon depart Mosul, the team found little to celebrate. The plant was in ruins. Six turbines sat dormant amid an expanse of desolate desert. Oil fields — set on fire by ISIS — burned in the distance.
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Electricity

New Plan Involving GE Will Recharge Iraq's Energy Sector And Economy

Dorothy Pomerantz
October 21, 2018
A decade ago, some parts of Iraq averaged a mere four hours of electricity per day. Today the typical Iraqi still has only 16 to 18 hours of power daily, and only a few regions can count on having power around the clock. The situation is far from perfect, sending people to cool off in the Tigris river — instead of air-conditioned rooms — during searing summer heat waves.
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Nuclear Energy

Full Steam Ahead: Egypt Picks World’s Largest Steam Turbines From GE For Its New Nuclear Power Plant

Tomas Kellner
October 09, 2018

Like many medieval towns in France, Belfort has its share of soaring church domes and spires. But the tallest structures here don’t serve any religion — they are temples of industry.

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Electricity

Cooking With Gas: This New GE Turbine Is Lighting Up The Future Of Power Generation

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2018
In the Middle Ages, spices arriving from the East began to revolutionize European cuisine. Those who could afford to were suddenly eating meals seasoned with pepper, cloves and cinnamon. If electricity were a flavor, you could say something similar is happening right now to the power market. Gone are the old days, when most electricity was supplied by meat-and-potatoes sources like coal, nuclear and hydropower plants. The energy mix today involves an ever-increasing share of zesty energy sources like wind and solar.
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Power Grid

Flick Of The Switch: Engineers Use Plasma To Convert DC To AC

Fred Guterl
September 10, 2018
In Los Angeles, people run their air conditioners using power generated by dams a thousand miles north in the Columbia River Gorge. Those in the northeastern U.S. also rely on hydropower that has a long way to travel: It comes from rivers in northern Quebec. A wind farm in Wyoming, meanwhile, would have to send its power hundreds of miles to cities that need it. As wind and water meet more of the nation’s demand for electricity, technology that can transmit that power efficiently is becoming more and more important.
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Electrical Grid

Zapping Blackouts: India Is Giving Its National Grid An All-Seeing Eye

P D Olson
August 27, 2018
Deepak Pandey still remembers the chaos of the world’s worst electrical outage. At 1:02 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, millions of people across India suddenly found themselves waiting for hours on paralyzed trains or stuck in elevators when power went out for half of the country’s 1.3 billion inhabitants across 22 states. Traffic snarled across the capital New Delhi, backup generators ran out of diesel and the water supply became tainted because pumping stations had no backup systems to counteract the unprecedented outage.
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Electricity

Fast Power: Grounded Jet Engines Are Powering Indonesia’s Pearl Paradise

October 12, 2017

The turquoise, nutrient-rich waters off the coast of the Indonesian island of Lombok are perfect for growing pearls. But when pearl farmer Fauzi Se wanted to take advantage of nature’s bounty and expand production at his jewelry business, he was stymied by a problem only humans can solve — his workshop didn’t have enough electricity to power his machines. “We recently ordered casting equipment to help with our pearl production,” Se says. “But, after the goods had arrived, it turned out we were not ready on the electricity side.”

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Electricity

Where Turbines Are Born: An Inside Look at GE’s Big Iron Maternity Ward

Tomas Kellner
October 04, 2017
There are places in the world that make us feel small and force us to marvel at the skills and ambitions of their architects and engineers. They include cathedrals in Europe, NASA's Cape Canaveral rocket launch pad or the Panama Canal. GE’s gas turbine plant in Greenville, South Carolina, may not be on everyone’s list. But it comes close.
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Power and Light for 13,000 Indonesian Villages

September 15, 2017
Bringing electricity to 13,000 remote villages for the first time is the objective of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by Indonesia’s Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Region Development and Transmigration (KEMENDES) and GE in July.
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Electrifying Indonesia: A National Challenge

August 26, 2017
Planning for Electricity.
Indonesia has a population of over 250 million people. Yet as recent as 2005, the nation’s energy demand was less than that of Norway, a country 50 times smaller. Since then, Indonesia has seen a huge economic growth in a decade. With that growth comes a staggering rise in the demand for electricity.
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