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Crushing Pollution: This Technology And Software Will Make A Huge Coal Power Plant In India Cleaner

March 06, 2017

Locals call Ramagundam the city of energy. The largest power plant in South India standing nearby along the banks of the Godavari River, for example, is capable of generating a whopping 2,600 megawatts of lifeblood electricity. That's enough to power 20 million local homes. The region has been investing in new power stations to meet its mammoth energy needs, but a major effort is also underway to modernize the existing fleet and make it efficient enough to meet the Indian government's ambitious targets to reduce air pollution.

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Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison, Tesla in National Inventors

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2017

When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic. She lived in a pre-computer era when the few women with science education worked mostly as “human computers,” helping their male colleagues solve labor-intensive equations.

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Energy

Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power Plants Run Cleaner

Bruce Watson
February 02, 2017
Nikola Tesla is a national hero in Serbia. Although he was born in what is now Croatia, Serbs still recall the day in 1892 when the scientist made his first, and only, visit to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But it feels like he’s never left.
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Africa

The Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa's 2nd Most Populous Country Recharge Its Economy

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2017
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life is anything but sweet.
The capital's lack of reliable power is making it hard for the business to operate. Every time the power goes out, its machines grind to a halt. Dough gets ruined. Cookies are underbaked. These interruptions are costing the company the equivalent of thousands of dollars in wasted ingredients.
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New $1.4 Billion GE Power Deal Will Supply Iraq With Reliable Electricity

January 18, 2017
Frederic Ribieras spent the last three months living and working in Baghdad. He says the Iraqi capital is a different place from what you see on the news. “Iraq is not what you see on CNN,” says Ribieras, who is GE’s vice president of Global Growth Operations. Granted, his group relies on GE’s “terrific security team,” but Ribieras says that today, “you’ll be able to feel you have a normal business day in Baghdad.”
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Electricity

When Hardware Met Software: The Digital Twin Of This Huge Gas Turbine Will Drive The World's Largest Aluminum Plant

January 16, 2017
Khalid Salem has spent his entire GE career — all 16 years — selling power generation equipment to customers all over the Gulf. But last fall the Jordan native found himself in a Catch-22.
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The Grid

High Voltage: Watch Out AC / DC Is Getting Its Groove Back

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 02, 2016
America’s largest machine — the power grid — has been pumping lifeblood electricity from power plants to our homes and businesses for more than a century. The vast network of wires, switches, transformers and other technology has gone through periodic upgrades, but the infrastructure is aging and increasingly prone to blackouts. Unfortunately, the stress on the network is starting to show at exactly the time when we need it to shoulder and move thousands of megawatts from new wind farms and solar installations popping up all over the country.
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Electricity

Thousand Power Islands: These Technologies Will Help Turn On The Lights In Remote Parts Of Indonesia

Tomas Kellner
September 22, 2016
From Jakarta’s glittering glass towers—which seem to grow as fast as rattan—to remote fishing villages with no plumbing and electricity, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. Spread across some 18,000 islands—only half of which have been named—its megacities and lush green forests are home to some 255 million people, making it the fourth most populous country in the world after India, China and the United States. The government is now trying to make sure the vast majority of them can turn the lights on at night.
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Electricity

Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The Digital Power Plant

Hong Chou Hui
September 20, 2016
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that world energy consumption will increase 48 percent by 2040 and that much of that growth will come from countries such as China, India and Indonesia.
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How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis

Dorothy Pomerantz
September 12, 2016
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon declared that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus.
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