Renewables

In two years, GE has announced 14 new manufacturing plants or existing facility expansions in the United States, from a new locomotive manufacturing plant in Texas and an aircraft engine composites factory in Mississippi to refurbished appliance and lighting facilities in Kentucky, Alabama and Ohio, among others.

GE launched a new gas turbine option in Houston today, the 50-megawatt (MW) FlexAero* LM6000-PH, that responds quickly and flexibly to fluctuations in demand without sacrificing efficiency, meaning it’s particularly well suited to work in tandem with renewable energy sources like wind and solar. How fast is the new turbine? [...]

GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS) announced today it is leading a $22 million investment round in energy efficient building maker Project Frog, its latest venture capital investment of several this year in “cleantech” companies. GE was in the top ten of cleantech investors in 2010, according to industry [...]

The state of Western Australia takes up a third of the Australian continent and is the second largest subnational entity in the world (it’s three times the size of Texas in area). WA gets a lot of sun, well over 3,000 hours annually. It doesn’t get a lot of rainfall. [...]

Renewable energy sources make up a small but growing percentage of overall energy use in the U.S. (about eight percent currently). A new interactive visualization from GE, GOOD and deeplocal explores different renewable energy sources, like wind, solar and geothermal, and their volume, cost and the pros and cons of [...]

Wind power is here to stay. As engineers work towards building a more connected and smarter energy grid, the intermittency of wind becomes less of an issue. GE’s newest gas turbines, which are able to ramp up and down quickly in response to weather-dependent wind turbines and solar panels, helps [...]