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GE Power Conversion commissions shore power system converters for ships at the Port of Brest

The Shore Power System can help to reduce ports’ carbon and noise emissions, enabling visiting ships to connect to the port’s electrical power and turn their engines off in port GE’s Power Conversion business provides system paralleling capability so that the power supplies can flex for different ships’ needs, sharing available power where and when it’s needed At the busy port of Brest in France, the Brest ESID (the Defence Infrastructure Service Establishment) installed a unique Shore Power System equipped with GE Power Conversion’s converters.
Alexandroupolis Damco

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Puzzle Pieces: From Greece to Brazil, Natural Gas Unlocks Pathways to Less Coal and More Renewables

In the ongoing effort to reduce emissions, retire coal, and support the growth of renewables, countries around the world continue to choose high-efficiency natural gas to complement renewables and smooth the path to lower emissions. Take Greece, for example, a country that’s impressively built out wind and solar in recent years but still uses a good deal of coal and even oil in power generation.

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GE Secures 7HA Combined Cycle Gas Equipment Order from ENEVA to Support Grid Reliability and Energy Transition in Brazil

Expansion of Eneva’s Azulão power plant will aim to deliver additional 590 megawatts (MW) of energy to support the Brazilian electrical system This project marks the second GE 7HA.02 gas turbine order in less than six months for Eneva’s Azulão complex—which is the second H-Class combined cycle plant in Brazil Atlanta, GA, April 13, 2023— GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it has secured a second order for its H-Class gas turbine technology from Eneva, the largest private natur
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Power Balance: How Emerging Economies Can Grow Access to Electricity and Help Decarbonize the Energy Sector

Like many emerging economies, Bangladesh and Vietnam share a thirst for electricity. Powered by rapid economic growth, the former expects demand for electricity to jump 250% by 2040, while the latter will see more than a doubling of its demand in a decade, increases that dwarf the typical annual changes in advanced economies like the U.S. Both countries share something else in common: Despite being small contributors to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, each nation sees climate change as a threat to its population and prosperity.

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GE Power Conversion to partner with Keppel Shipyard for delivery of electrical modules on Petrobras FPSO vessels, P-80 and P-83

GE Power Conversion has been chosen by Keppel Shipyard for the design, supply and delivery of two electrical modules for Petrobras’ Floating Production Storage Offloading vessels (FPSO), coded P-80 and P-83, which will be used for offshore energy production. The modules will be constructed in Asia for anticipated delivery during 2024 and 2025 to Singapore for topside integration, utilizing specialist support and expertise from both GE’s Asia and Brazil teams. GE Power Conversion was recently awarded a contract from Keppel Shipyard Limited, a wholly-owned subs

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GE Announces Aeroderivative Gas Turbine Order from UCED Group to Support Energy Transition in the Czech Republic

A GE LM6000* aeroderivative gas turbine is planned to be delivered in early 2024 to UCED Group’s Prostějov power plant in the Czech Republic Once in operation, the unit will add approximately 50 megawatts of reliable reserve power to help stabilize the grid and support renewable growth in the country Prostějov Project supports the Czech Republic government’s main target to diversify energy sources by increasing gas and renewables and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 30% by 2030, compared to 2005

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GE Power Conversion to supply system upgrade for Network Rail’s Innovation and Development Centre

GE Power Conversion has secured an order for Network Rail for upgrade of the existing phase balancer control and cooling system at their Rail Innovation and Development Centre in Melton Mowbray, UK. The scope of supply is upgrade of the control and cooling system including design, manufacture, delivery, installation and commissioning and incorporation of a GE Visor facility for remote diagnostics. The upgrade will enable testing of innovative technology for the rail infrastructure, in addition to delivering enhanced performance of the system itself.

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GE Gas Power acquires Nexus Controls from Baker Hughes, creates new full-service Controls business line

Successful deal closure integrates aftermarket controls business with Mark™ Vle platform and establishes GE as a full-lifecycle, global leader in controls products, engineering, and services Customers benefit from leading controls expertise from development through servicing, supporting modern power plant’s requirements around flexibility and profitability SCHENECTADY, New York – APRIL 3, 2023 – GE (NYSE: GE) today announced its Gas Power business completed the acquisition of Nexus Controls from Baker Hughes.
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SMRs, Deploy! GE Hitachi Signs Four-Party Agreement to Bring Small Modular Reactors Online This Decade

“We have an energy crisis,” said Rafał Kasprów, CEO of Poland’s Synthos Green Energy (SGE), last Thursday in Washington, D.C. “The solution we need,” he said, is innovative technology — “and we already have it: SMRs.” Kasprów was speaking at an event to celebrate the signing of a new $400 million technical collaboration agreement to advance the development and deployment of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular nuclear reactor.
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A Milestone Toward Ending Gas Flaring: How GE’s Mobile Turbines Help Cut Oil Site Emissions in Yemen

For decades, the blazing plumes of oil-site gas flares have featured in fossil-fuel news reports and dystopias like Blade Runner — emblems of the massive economic waste and carbon emissions most assume are just costs of doing business.