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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)

Powering On: How Gas Turbine Technology can bring Korea closer to a lower Carbon Future

South Korea has set a serious goal for itself: achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The goal has been laid out in the government’s Green New Deal, a sweeping and ambitious plan launched earlier this year. The country seeks to invest $61 billion in various technology initiatives to create hundreds of thousands of jobs and reduce the country’s carbon footprint. As part of this plan, the ...

Jan. 12, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

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

This Milestone will blow you away: GE Wind Platform just logged 20 GW of installed capacity around the world

Last November, more than 8,000 GE Renewable Energy onshore wind turbines standing in 23 states in the United States and 10 different countries quietly took the power industry by storm. The 2 megawatt (MW) onshore wind platform blew through a major milestone by logging a combined 20 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity worldwide since its debut in late 2015. That’s the equivalent of ...

Jan. 14, 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

Cost-effective, far-sighted and global

From biogas boom to internationalisation and the ‘Flex’ cap: EnviTec Biogas has experienced the ups and downs of the biogas sector for 18 years now. The only constant on this rollercoaster ride of ever-changing laws and market conditions has been the company itself. With its extensive portfolio and an early grasp of the bigger picture, this biogas all-rounder has repeatedly been an ...

Jan. 13, 2021

By EnviTec Biogas AG

Plain Energy: Huge New Mexico Wind Project will be Capable of Powering the Equivalent of 590,000 Homes

Pretty soon the bristly grasses of the high plains won’t be the only thing catching the wind in central New Mexico: Western Spirit Wind, an installation built by the southwestern utility Pattern Energy, is set to deliver more than 1,050 megawatts of renewable energy from four separate wind farms. The Western Spirit Wind project is scheduled to be the largest wind installation in the state, ...

Jan. 7, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Year in Review: Around the World, GE Employees Rose to Meet the Challenge of COVID-19

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 ...

Jan. 6, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Friends In High Places: Meet The Haliade-X 14 MW

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 ...

Jan. 4, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Year in Review: Engineers and Scientists at GE Research Made the World Smarter, Safer and More Efficient

A passenger jet that’s propelled by electricity? Artificial intelligence that can learn to reason as children do? A robotic “worm” that can dig a tunnel longer than five football fields? Those were just some of the ambitious concepts - with important real-world applications - that the scientists and engineers at GE Research set their minds to in 2020. In between, they used ...

Dec. 30, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Reflections on 2020 + Updates on debt reduction, offshore wind, and more

This time of year always presents an opportunity to reflect on the challenges we’ve faced, the progress we’ve made, and how we might improve as we look forward. As I think about the GE story over the course of 2020, I see a team that, despite the challenges of COVID-19, is building momentum. From Aviation to Power, Renewable Energy, and Healthcare, we are innovating to solve some of ...

Dec. 22, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Sea Power: A 14-MW Version of a Powerful Wind Turbine will go to the World’s Largest Wind Farm

GE Renewable Energy was named the preferred turbine supplier for Dogger Bank C, the third phase of what is set to become the largest offshore wind farm in the world upon completion in 2026. GE will also supply turbines for phases A and B of the wind farm. The Haliade-X was originally designed to produce 12 megawatts. Even at that level, a single rotation of the turbine could generate enough ...

Dec. 18, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

The Power Couple: Renewables + Gas Can Drive Decarbonization With Greater Speed

It certainly wasn’t the first time a blanket of still, cold air covered the British Isles early in a November. But what made the autumn air mass that settled in the area this year different was its impact on the power industry. The U.K. is increasingly relying on wind power — it is building the world’s largest offshore wind farm — and the weather system prompted managers ...

Dec. 14, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Concrete Benefits: Recycling Old Wind Turbine Blades Could Help Cement Industry Cut CO2 Emissions

Global wind farm operators added more than 22,000 wind turbines in 2019 and the growth is only going to pick up speed as more and more countries continue to press ahead to lower their carbon footprint. With good reason: On average, a single wind turbine operating in the U.S. reduces emissions to the tune of 4,600 metric tons of CO2 each year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In ...

Dec. 9, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

High Voltage on the High Seas: Huge North Sea Station will Allow Germany to Capture more Wind Power

Like many countries around the world, Germany is in the middle of an ambitious energy transition, aiming to generate 80% of its power from renewable sources by 2050. One steppingstone on that journey is a huge yellow structure rising more than 60 feet from the slate-gray waters of the North Sea some 80 kilometers off the country’s ...

Nov. 18, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

IHA: Putting sustainable hydropower at the heart of the energy transition

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 ...

Nov. 16, 2020

By International Hydropower Association (IHA)

Blade of Glory: A Critical Offshore Wind Turbine Component Passes a key milestone

At 107 meters from end to end, the blade for the Haliade-X wind turbine - the world’s most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation - is longer than a football field, and possibly one of the single biggest machine components ever built. Now the GE Renewable Energy engineers who designed the massive part have one more thing to feel good about: The blade has just received its component ...

Nov. 12, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

Turning Point: Powerful Haliade-X Offshore Wind Turbine Sets New Record, Passes Crucial Milestone

A little over a year ago, the Haliade-X offshore wind turbine set an important record when a working prototype of the machine, located at the Port of Rotterdam, became the first wind turbine to produce 288 megawatt-hours of energy within 24 hours. That may have been enough to power 30,000 households in that area but it wasn’t enough for the Haliade-X, which just bested the feat. In October ...

Nov. 12, 2020

By GE Renewable Energy

What’s Your Risk Tolerance during Construction of a Utility-Scale PV Solar Power Plant? Active Stow vs. Passive Mitigation

Utility-scale engineering and construction projects are inherently risky. Large numbers of people independently working on a site, out in the weather, around dangerous machinery large and small, racing to finish the project as quickly as possible. Most Engineering, Procurement, and Engineering (EPCs) in the solar industry have the personnel safety issue solved. There are ongoing, sophisticated ...

Nov. 10, 2020

By Array Technologies Inc

ECOMONDO and KEY ENERGY digital editions start Tuesday, November 3 with Costa, Patuanelli and Di Maio. The states general of the green economy open the morning

The green economy world has never stopped, in spite of the difficulties, even in the year of the pandemic. Confirmation arrives from Ecomondo and Key Energy, the Italian Exhibition Group expos dedicated, respectively, to the recovery of material and sustainable development and to renewable energies, which will run from tomorrow, Tuesday 3rd November, until Sunday 15th November on the IEG digital ...

Nov. 2, 2020

By Italian Exhibition Group S.p.A.

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