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Energy

GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon

Tomas Kellner
September 01, 2016
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert Armstrong, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), the school’s hub for energy research, education and outreach.
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Renewables

Brussels Is Sprouting A Digital Grid For A Green Boom

Tomas Kellner
August 02, 2016
There is plenty of uncertainty in Brussels this summer, the home to a number of European Union institutions. But one safe bet in the Belgian metropolis is that the lights will stay on.
That’s because the city’s electrical grid is using the Industrial Internet to get smarter. Sibelga, the company that operates the only distribution network in Brussels, will soon adopt GE’s PowerOn Advantage, a sophisticated software solution that controls electricity flows between the traditional grid and the consumer. The software runs on Predix, GE’s data and analytics platform.
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Electrification Software Grid

So You Have A Wind Farm, Now What? This Software Will Bring More Renewable Power To People's Homes

June 28, 2016
You know it’s windy when water seemingly violates the law of gravity. That happened in Scotland last February when Storm Henry’s 100-miles-per-hour gale flipped a waterfall on the Isle of Mull on its head, made it cascade up a cliff and turned it into a YouTube sensation. No wonder wind power is big business in the Highlands.
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It’s Raining Octopus: Is Your Business Ready?

June 24, 2016
Even when it’s bright and sunny, dark clouds are never far behind. And sometimes, those clouds are ready to rain octopuses down on you.

Is your business ready?


 
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Guinness World Records

Here's Why The Latest Guinness World Record Will Keep France Lit Up Long After Soccer Fans Leave

Tomas Kellner
June 17, 2016
First the latest news from Guinness World Records: The world’s most efficient combined-cycle power plant started producing electricity near the village of Bouchain in northern France today. The plant’s beating heart – an advanced GE gas turbine – can convert more than 62 percent of fuel energy into electricity. For the power-generation crowd, that’s like Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon or Sir Roger Bannister breaking through the 4-minute-mile barrier.
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Minds-Machines

This Is How Digital Power Plants for Steam Can Remove Emissions Equivalent to 120M Cars

Ganesh Bell GE
June 14, 2016
The electricity industry as we have known it for the past one hundred years is being transformed.
Renewables. Electric vehicles. Consumers becoming generators. Micro grids. Intelligent thermostats. Smart meters. Big Data. COP21. These technologies, trends and global commitments are disrupting our industry so dramatically that it will soon be unrecognizable as the one shaped by Thomas Edison.
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Minds-Machines

The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power Plant In Italy’s Industrial Heart

Tomas Kellner
June 13, 2016
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation and a high-voltage cable from France has created more power supply than the region can absorb. So much so, in fact, the glut took at least one decades-old power plant out of commission in 2013.
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development

Getting Current: New Tech Giving More Africans Access To Electricity

Charles Feinstein World Bank
May 17, 2016

Much work remains to be done to ensure reliable electricity access for Africa's citizens. A number of complications are making it difficult to achieve this UN Sustainable Development Goal. Yet access rates are expanding in many nations, and technology and design improvements offer opportunities to make rapid leaps forward.

 
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Electrification Software thread

Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says The X Prize’s Peter Diamandis

Tomas Kellner
May 17, 2016
GE kept working on jet engines, which are now GE Aviation’s core product. The $24 billion business makes the world’s largest jet engines, now roughly 100 times more powerful than Sorota’s original. The latest engines like the GEnx and LEAP can be connected to the data cloud to analyze their efficiency and operations. A jet engine with GE technology takes off every two seconds somewhere in the world. Says Sorota: “It never dawned on me it was going to turn over the entire aircraft industry like it did.”
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development

More Than 1 Billion People Live Without Electricity. Here's How We Turn Their Lights On

Todd Moss Center For Global Development
Mimi Alemayehou Managing Director At The Black Rhino Group
May 05, 2016

5 Recommendations to Make Modern Energy Access Meaningful for People and Prosperity

Energy is fundamental to modern life, but 1.3 billion people around the world live without access to “modern electricity.” But what does that mean exactly? The current definition is a mere 100 kilowatt-hours kWh per person per year for urban areas — or enough to power a single lightbulb for five hours per day and keep a mobile phone charged — and half as much in rural areas.
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