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Aberdulais Falls in the Neath Valley, South Wales is an important industrial heritage site owned and run by the National Trust. For over 400 years these falls provided the energy to drive the wheels of industry, from the manufacture of copper in 1584 to the later tinplate works. A recent major refurbishment of the water wheel gave scope for implementing the latest hydraulic technology to improve ...
In the fall of 2019, the Danish company Ørsted announced plans to build two wind farms off the U.S. East Coast that would use GE Renewable Energy’s Haliade-X platform — the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation. This week GE Renewable Energy said that it has finalized supply and service contracts for one of those projects: Ocean Wind, which will be ...
The coronavirus pandemic was first and foremost a healthcare crisis, but it touched every corner of the world and every sector of the economy - and drew millions of people together in the effort to turn the tide. Across GE, factories ramped up to manufacture ventilators and patient monitors needed in clinical settings to treat patients suffering from COVID-19; technicians found themselves driving ...
In 2019, the Haliade-X 12 MW prototype in Rotterdam raised the bar for wind energy (see top image). It set a world record for generating enough energy in one day to power 30,000 Dutch households. The prototype is performing so well that the machines are now rated even higher - at 13 MW. GE has received the first commercial order for 190 of the machines. They will power the first two phases of the ...
The Copenhagen International School’s (CIS) new building is covered by approximately 12,000 solar panels (6,048 sqm) using Kromatix™ blue-green solar glass, integrating the building and the surrounding ocean. It is one of the largest building-integrated solar power plants in the ...
By SwissINSO
From electric vehicle charging stations appearing everywhere to the drones Amazon is using to deliver packages in some markets, it is easy to see the electrification transformation that’s occurring on land. But the ocean is out of sight and out of mind, which is why many people don’t know what’s happening in the busy, multitrillion dollar economy operating out there. ...
The hydraulic power pack can be electric motor driven or diesel engine driven. Best option is to use diesel engine driven in order for the whole setup to be used on construction sites without electricity supply. By using hydraulic drive slurry pumps, the maximum torque can be applied through the full speed range of the slurry pump. This is very useful in the applications such as heavy slurry or ...
The Covid-19 pandemic has made physical contact almost impossible to conduct business. People are staying home and going online to work and meet. This has puts pressure on data centers and communications infrastructure. It is vital that data centers are resilient, but also sustainable. There are two opposing forces at work. As demand grows, data centers expand and their energy use increases. But ...
By AKCP
Happy 25th birthday! Much of the past 25 years has been spent building a better hydropower sector. Thanks for being part of the journey. Building on this platform, our next 25 years can have a more confident ...
There’s what most ordinary people call troubleshooting. And then there’s what Sanjeev Kumar calls troubleshooting. In May, in the midst of India’s countrywide lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kumar, a field service leader for GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions Services unit in India, and his team got a distress call from the Haryana Power Generation Corporation ...
Green-field Pumped Hydro Storage Plant Project in Belgium Rent-A-Port Green Energy working in association with other private and public partners develops a 150 MW greenfield pumped storage project in Belgium. The project aims to set a new benchmark for the flexibility of pumped hydro storage, and uses mid-scale variable speed asynchronous pump-turbines in conjunction with batteries. It ...
Rent-A-Port Energy’s Management’s experience in pioneer offshore wind farms Rent-A-Port Green Energy’s management was the driving force behind the pioneering “far shore” wind farm C-Power. This was the first time ever that wind turbines were installed so far offshore (30 km) and in such great depths of water (30 m). The first phase, comprising six 5 MW wind ...
In September, the European Commission in Brussels proposed an ambitious new goal for renewable energy in the region: a 55% reduction in greenhouses gases by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels) to put Europe on track toward climate neutrality by 2050. To get there, EU countries are going to have to accelerate their efforts around renewable energy. Much of that will be in the form of solar panels and ...
Steam turbines are elegant in their simplicity. Water turns to steam; steam rotates the turbines; energy is transformed into electricity. But this simplicity belies incredible complexities in their operations and tiny intricacies in their build. These intricacies demand a rigorous testing practice to make sure that the turbines work safely. Increasingly, these turbines are tested using Phased ...
By Zetec, Inc
Two crystal-clear blue lakes in the Swiss canton of Valais, Lac d’Emosson and Lac du Vieux Emosson, look at first glance like any number of local glacier-fed tarns, surrounded by mountains and crystalline air blowing down the slopes of nearby Mont Blanc. But first impressions can be misleading: The twin bodies of water are central components of Nant de Drance, one of the world’s most ...
We’ve often heard that for companies to lessen carbon footprint and become environmentally friendly, they must go online or put their papers and process in the “cloud”. But that’s not really the case, as storing files in the cloud also translates to renting a physical space where those data will be stored and accessed when needed. These places are called data centers. They ...
By AKCP
The UN demands urgent action on biodiversity. Sustainable hydropower can be part of the solution, writes Alain Kilajian of the International Hydropower Association ...
Pumped storage hydropower has proven to be an ideal solution to the growing list of challenges faced by grid operators. As the transition to a clean energy future rapidly unfolds, this flexible technology will become even more important for a reliable, affordable and low carbon grid, write IHA analysts Nicholas Troja and Samuel Law. "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". That old adage, ...
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Late last year, Richard Zheng watched as a mammoth crane lowered one of the world’s biggest generator rotors toward what seemed like a very small hole at the bottom of one of the world’s largest dams. The rotor had taken Zheng and his colleagues years to design and build to exacting specifications. Now this 1,900-metric-ton steel wheel had to be placed inside a ring with a gap of just ...
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