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FieldCore GE lean management

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Taking Care Of Business: How Lean Management Is Helping GE Field Crews Improve Power Plant Maintenance

The 1980s are back in fashion, according to Harper’s Bazaar, but in some corners of industry, they never left. “Nobody’s wearing big hair and shoulder pads, but it’s all very pencil and paper,” says Jeremiah Smedra, an operations director at FieldCore, GE’s field services company. Smedra is talking about maintenance workers trudging into power plants with thick binders filled with drawings and instructions to make sure outages are performed according to plan.
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New Energy: This Tech Is Helping The World Push Back Against Climate Change

When GE released its Sustainability Report last June, it made a commitment to becoming carbon neutral in its own operations by 2030, and announced an ambition to be net zero by 2050, including Scope 3 emissions from the use of sold products. GE’s technology and its long innovation tradition are already helping customers find new ways to deal with looming challenges like the energy transition to address climate change. Take a look at our list. Hello, Hydrogen
Long Lake Hydro Avista

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Water Runs Through It: New West Coast Hydro Project To Aid Energy Transition And Energy Trading

People have been harnessing the power of water to do work for millennia. In the third century BCE, the Greek engineer Philo Mechanicus is believed to have designed the first horizontal water wheel, the precursor of the hydropower turbines we have been using to generate electricity for more than a century.
Linthal GE Renewable Energy Pumped Storage

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Priming The Pumps: Hydro Storage Could Reduce Electricity Costs And Emissions, Study Says

The enormous growth in renewable power in recent years has been helping decarbonize electricity grids around the world. But there remains a robust debate about the best way to store the energy produced by wind turbines and solar panels when demand is low, and use it when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine.

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GE Renewable Energy to refurbish generators at the historic Long Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant

GE Renewable Energy to rehabilitate four generators at Long Lake Powerhouse, a site listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic PlacesThe first unit is scheduled for commissioning at the end of 2024Once refurbished, the lifetime of the units will be increased by another 50 years.Paris, January 12, 2022 – GE Renewable Energy signed a Service contract with Avista Utilities, a US energy utility serving four northwestern states, to modernize four generator units at the Long Lake hydropower plant in the U.S.

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GE Selected by BUMA to supply Electrical Equipment for thyssenkrupp Steel hot rolling mill

GE Power Conversion has been selected by the Austrian mechanical supplier BUMA engineering & Anlagenbau GmbH (BUMA) for the installation of electrical equipment for a new descaling spray at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s hot rolling mill WBW2 in Duisburg, Germany.

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GE Vernova awarded contract for new build Tauernmoos pumped hydro storage power plant

Paris, France (May 18, 2021) – GE Vernova announced that it has been selected by the Austrian National Railway Operator, ÖBB, to supply and commission two 85 MW variable speed pumped storage turbines for the new Tauernmoos Pumped Hydro Storage Power Plant located in the Stubachtal Valley/Austria. As part of the project, GE Vernova will be responsible for the design, engineering, model testing, manufacturing, supply, erection supervision and the commissioning of the two 85 MW variable speed pumped storage turbines and generators.