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Blade Runners: GE Vernova Is Deploying AI-Enabled Machines to Boost Wind Turbine Blade Quality
“The world needs wind,” said Vic Abate, CEO of GE Vernova’s Wind business, at the company’s recent Investor Day event. Indeed, wind power already plays an important role in worldwide energy production. However, to meet the world’s growing energy needs, and to foster decarbonization, wind power must increase the amount of electricity it supplies to the grid from 7% currently to 25%. “Think of an energy system where one out of four electrons comes from wind,” Abate added, “because this is a different world.”