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The Art of Wind Farm Maintenance: This Software Can Help Keep Wind Turbines Spinning Longer

If you regularly drive long distances, it’s good practice to pop your car’s hood every few months for a thorough inspection of the engine, transmission, radiator, pumps and brakes. But if you’re only clocking up to a few dozen miles per month from the weekly supermarket run, you may be able to take a raincheck on that quarterly checkup. Engineers at GE Renewable Energy are now ...

Mar. 31, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
What the Future May Hold: Patent Analyst Kavitha Andoji Aims to Turn Big Ideas Into Big Things

Growing up in Hyderabad, a large, bustling city in south-central India that has become an information technology hub, Kavitha Andoji was constantly dreaming up inventions that would save her family time and money. In one case, they rigged a stationary bicycle to use the energy from pedaling to power the lights in their home. Another handy device was a machine that would repeatedly hammer a ...

Apr. 7, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Pumped About the Future: The Next Wave of Hydropower is Happening in Australia

Australia’s grid is at a crossroads. The country has relied on coal to generate its power for decades, but those fossil-fueled plants are set to be retired over the next 20 years. As coal bows out, Australia plans to build 26 to 50 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar power, roughly the same as South Africa’s total installed capacity, to fill some of the void. But that switch is far from ...

Apr. 5, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Here Comes the Sun: GE Renewable Energy To Build Largest Planned Hybrid Solar Storage System In New York

Renewable energy has been growing at breakneck speed. By 2040, according to the International Energy Agency, wind and solar are expected to add 74% of net new generation capacity around the world. But what if they could grow even faster? What if you could store megawatts generated on a windy and sunny Sunday, when the power may not be needed, and release it on Monday morning as factories open ...

Mar. 17, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Year in Review: The Silver Anniversary of an Aviation Giant and more milestones

2020 marked the 45th anniversary of the end of World War II, the 50th year in which Earth Day was celebrated, a quarter-century since the release of the kids’ movie “Toy Story” and — for good measure — the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae. GE marked a few significant milestones as well; none featured Buzz Lightyear, but they did involve some pretty ...

Mar. 17, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Engineering the Future: This GE Tech will help shape the world of tomorrow

When a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by Air Tahiti Nui took off from the Faa’a International Airport on the Pacific Island of Tahiti last May, the pilots weren’t planning on setting world records; they were flying home French nationals who got stranded there due to international travel bans caused by COVID-19. But when they touched down in Paris 15 hours and 45 minutes and 9,765 ...

Mar. 10, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Featured IQ Installer: Brad Fort of New Leaf Electric

Installer Name: Brad Fort Company Name: New Leaf Electric City/State/Country: San Diego, CA USA We love talking to our Elite IQ Installers and asking them questions about their pioneering work in the renewable energy industry. This month, we chat with Brad Fort of New Leaf Electric, our featured Elite IQ Installer for March 2021! The southern CA installer shares his most common ...

Mar. 9, 2021

By Simpliphi Power, Inc.
Going Places: These Indian Engineers are Helping Solve the World`s Toughest Problems

Aerospace engineer Pooja Choudhary still remembers her first plane ride. The Mumbai native was 11 years old when she joined her class on a school trip to Jaipur, one of India’s top tourist destinations. But the city’s famous pink palaces weren’t what piqued Pooja’s interest. She was in it for the plane ride. “When I was in school, watching planes fly overhead would ...

Mar. 5, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Renewable energy solutions – from a wave of future to global reality

Imagine a world with globally accessible, cheap and reliable, clean energy. Although it sounds a bit utopian, every day we’re getting a little closer to the life fueled by renewable power. It becomes possible due to the latest technology advancements form the past few decades and ongoing acceleration of technology development. As the main driver of the energy sector transition to clean ...

Feb. 28, 2021

By Codibly
Packing Power: Keen to Cut Emissions, Malaysia Becomes First Country to Fire Up GE 9HA.02 Turbine

Emerging economies in Asia face a dilemma. They need more electricity to power economic growth, but they also want to cut emissions from coal they have relied on for decades. Switching from coal to natural gas can reduce a power plant’s carbon footprint by as much as 60%, according to a recent report published by GE. Meanwhile, urban density and geography prevent them from choosing options ...

Feb. 25, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
How Cool is This: Superconducting Generators Aim to Unlock More Offshore Wind Power at Lower Cost

In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes made a very cool discovery. Electrons usually lose energy as they careen through an electrical conductor, but he noticed something funny happen in a mercury wire at temperatures approaching absolute zero - minus 459 degrees Fahrenheit: The electrons met no resistance and the current flowed unimpeded, with no energy losses. Decades later, that ...

Feb. 24, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
A cold hard lesson

At this moment much of America is suffering. Millions of people are struggling without elecrtricity and heat during an epic cold spell. In Texas alone four million famalies have no power! Sadly, It did not have to be this bad. This situation's root cause is energy demand in extreme conditions. We have known for decades that the first best step for energy management is Reduce Before Your Produce. ...

Feb. 18, 2021

By Energy Efficiency Done Right (EEDR)
Taking Off: New Colorado Energy Project Finds a Fast Path From Coal to Gas and Renewables

Located a short walk from downtown, the hulking blue edifice of Martin Drake Power Plant is hardly a destination site for people visiting Colorado Springs, Colorado. Still, it could soon serve as a blueprint for energy providers seeking to cut their carbon footprint and bring more renewables online. The 40-year-old plant is one of the two coal-burning power stations that supply electricity to ...

Feb. 17, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
North Wind: Europe’s Largest Onshore Wind Farm will Use Powerful GE Turbines

A remote, forested rise in northern Sweden, some 500 miles from Stockholm, is poised to become the largest single onshore wind farm in Europe. When completed, Önusberget wind farm will have the capacity to generate 753 megawatts, enough to supply the equivalent of more than 200,000 Swedish homes. The wind farm is being developed by Luxcara, an independent asset management company focusing ...

Feb. 15, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Winds of Change: Massive Oklahoma Energy Project to be Powered by More Than 500 GE Turbines

Oklahoma, which led the U.S. in oil extraction during most of the first third of the 20th century, is in the process of becoming one of the leaders in a new energy revolution. Where oil derricks once dotted the state’s flat, wind-swept landscape, and wildcatters and big companies alike made their fortunes, giant blades now spin, harnessing the nearly limitless power of moving air rather ...

Feb. 1, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
Big Tech: In 2020, GE Redoubled Its Efforts to Build a World that Works

Reporting GE’s year-end and fourth-quarter results for 2020 today, GE Chairman and CEO Larry Culp said the company delivered “significantly improved” profitability and cash performance in a difficult year. “We are in leading positions to capture opportunities in the energy transition, precision health, and the future of flight,” Culp said. “As we continue our ...

Jan. 26, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
A Turn for the Better: With ‘Lean’ Ideas, this Team Upended GE’s Approach to Servicing Europe’s Wind Farms

For Don Quixote, the hapless hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ 17th-century novels, the windmills that dotted the dun-colored plains in the central Spanish region of Castille-La Mancha were illusory giants in need of slaying. So what would Quixote think now of the enormous warehouse that Bob Karl and his colleagues at GE Renewable Energy operate in the small town here called Noblejas? In this ...

Jan. 22, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
The Alamo 5 Solar Project & MOI

The Alamo 5 Solar project is one of the world’s largest dual-axis tracker systems. This 121.0 MWdc utility-scale solar project is located in Uvalde, TX. The station has a total of 9000 Sun Action Tracker’s and crystalline solar modules by Mission Solar, Jinko and Trina. Each tracker station contains 42 photo voltaic modules, totaling nearly 380,000 modules for the entire site. ...

Jan. 19, 2021

By Met One Instruments, Inc. (MOI)
Ocean Wind: GE Finalizes a Deal to Supply Powerful Haliade-X Turbines to New Jersey Offshore Wind Farm

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 ...

Jan. 18, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy
The Big Picture: This GE Tech is Worth a Thousand Words and then Some

GE Reports spilled a lot of digital ink this year describing some of the company’s biggest achievements, but some ideas are so noteworthy that they benefit from a visual component too: say, the world’s most powerful commercial jet engine. Or the most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation. Here are some of the graphics we created to go along with our articles. (Click on the ...

Jan. 14, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

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