solar

A big obstacle to large-scale integration of renewable power from solar and wind sources into the grid is intermittency – those periods when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. GE Energy has taken a major step forward in addressing that issue with its new FlexEfficiency* 50 Combined [...]

GE recently partnered with the Hawaiian Electric Company and the Hawaiian Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii, with help from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, on the Oahu Wind Integration Study, described in this infographic.

Last week, GE announced a major breakthrough in solar energy that paves the way to make it available and affordable on a large scale. The news — that GE has achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels — happened as solar is bursting into the spotlight across [...]

A key goal in solar energy is to make it available and affordable on a large scale. Last week, GE hit a major milestone on that path, having achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels. The research that led to the breakthrough built on decades of [...]

With its latest thin film solar innovation, GE is helping to turn the world’s oldest energy resource into its newest one. The breakthrough reported yesterday — that GE has achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels — is part of a major push toward making [...]

In the world of renewable energy, cost and efficiency are key to making the technology affordable. Today, GE announced the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels — a huge step toward making more solar available and affordable on a large scale. To make the technology, GE plans [...]

Solar is the next step in GE’s growing renewable energy portfolio — not to mention a key part of its ecomagination commitment to drive the production and use of clean energy technology through innovation and R&D investment.