Wind

Renewable energy needs a game changer. While plenty of new innovation is hitting the markets, there’s still a giant chasm between where we are now and where we need to be in order to abandon fossil fuels. GE’s new FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant is a step toward the [...]

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.

According to a study released today by the United Kingdom-funded Carbon Trust, the global offshore wind-power market is poised to grow in capacity to 1,150 gigawatts — and could be worth $273 billion yearly by 2050. With its vast, gusty coastlines, the UK has immense offshore wind capacity and the [...]

GE Energy announced an agreement today to buy approximately 90 percent of Converteam, a leading provider of electrification and automation equipment and systems, for approximately $3.2 billion — with a deal to buy the remaining shares over the next two to five years.
At its heart, electrification is all about industries [...]

At this year’s TED conference, currently underway in Long Beach, CA, GE’s on-site Innovation Gallery is featuring new technologies, X-ray art by Nick Veasey and nearly 20 data visualizations on energy. One of those — the “Energy Dependency” visualization by designers Driven by Data — takes a closer look at [...]

With more than 2,500 business leaders, academics and political thought leaders converging on Davos, Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum, the topic of how to spur innovation and high-tech manufacturing in the new global economy is on the front burner. Ahead of the giant summit, a new GE [...]

As recent GE surveys have shown, one of the biggest hurdles to rolling out smart grid technologies isn’t the hardware or software. Rather, it’s filling in the information gaps that everyone has — consumers, businesses, policy makers and even big industrial customers — on exactly what a smart grid is, [...]