Taller wind turbines provide a number of benefits over their shorter counterparts. They can reach higher altitudes where winds are stronger, without being hindered by vegetation, terrain, or buildings. Because of the increased height, longer blades may be used, allowing a single turbine to gather more energy. Cost savings canContinue Reading
GE Renewable Energy announced today it has produced its 44,444th wind turbine blade at LM Wind Power’s wind turbine blade manufacturing sites in India. These blades have been manufactured in the two factories located near Bangalore, Karnataka and in Vadodara, Gujarat. LM Wind Power’s operations in India began in 1994 inContinue Reading
In a record-setting year, the wind market commissioned nearly 100 gigawatts of new build in 2020. Undeterred by the coronavirus pandemic, installations grew 59% year-on-year. Developers commissioned some 96.3 gigawatts globally in 2020, compared with 60.7 gigawatts the previous year. Most of these were on land (94%), as the additionContinue Reading
GE T&D India on Thursday announced it has bagged a contract by state-run Power Grid Corporation for constructing 765-kiloVolt (kV) Gas-Insulated Substation (GIS) bays at Phagi in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. This is GE’s first 765 kV GIS order from the Power Grid, a company statement said. The Phagi substationContinue Reading
General Electric (GE) has decided to close the Inland Empire natural gas plant in California, a whole 20 years early. Such generating facilities normally have a 30-year useful life and this plant was commissioned only in 2009; so GE is losing two-thirds of its roughly $1 billion investment in theContinue Reading
Renewable sources account for around 34 per cent of Rajasthan’s total installed power generation capacity of 21.6 Gw. The state is planning to increase solar and wind generation capacity to 14.3 Gw by 2022 which requires remote monitoring and grid stability. GE T&D India Ltd, part of GE’s grid solutionsContinue Reading
GE Renewable Energy’s 12 MW Haliade-X which measure in at 260 meters in height and boast a 220-meter rotor, capable of generating enough clean electricity for 16,000 households all on its own will be installed in Rotterdam during the middle of 2019 for five years of testing. However, before theContinue Reading
In the backdrop of the world’s biggest power blackout faced by India in July 2012 due to a grid failure which impacted more than 620 million people across 22 states. General Electric (GE) was awarded a $52.2 million contract in January 2014 to install WAMS across all five regional grids ofContinue Reading
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