Electricity demand is rising as transport, heating, and industry electrify, with additional growth coming from data centers and expanding industrial loads. The transmission network that moves electricity was built over many decades, but expanding it has become increasingly difficult. Building new transmission lines often takes ten to fifteen years once … [continued]
I’m preparing to speak to engineers at GE Vernova during Engineering Week at the request of Cornelis Plet, CTO of GE Vernova Grid Systems Integration. It is a useful moment to step back and look at a class of technologies that rarely make headlines but quietly shape how modern power … [continued]
When Brunei quietly announced that it would recognize the airworthiness rules of China’s Civil Aviation Administration, it seemed like a bureaucratic footnote. But the decision is a bellwether. By accepting CAAC certification as valid within its own jurisdiction, Brunei effectively declared that it trusts Chinese aviation regulators as much as … [continued]
General Electric (GE) is launching a brand new heat pump water heater (HPWH) that elevates the technology to a whole new level. GE was one of the first to bring a HPWH to market in 2008. The company spent the last several years closely studying seemingly every technological challenge and … [continued]
My family recently purchased a GE Profile all-in-one washer/dryer that not only saves space in your laundry room (with other benefits as well), but also uses a heat pump for the drying cycle to save energy.
The company Einride is one of many startups that have been built on big goals regarding autonomous, electric transport. Most of these companies never get far and never make much of an impact. Well, this Swedish startup may be special, because it’s got a deal actually putting its autonomous truck … [continued]
In partnership with General Electric (GE), and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO), researchers at Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) successfully installed and deployed a device called a spinner lidar on the hub — the structure that connects blades to … [continued]
DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office Selects 15 Projects Totaling $27 Million to Address Key Deployment Challenges for Offshore, Land-Based, and Distributed Wind In December 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) released a funding opportunity to lower costs and address barriers to deployment of wind … [continued]
California is proceeding with a plan to install up to 25000 MW of electricity from offshore floating wind turbines by 2045.
Virginia is going from near-zero wind power to 2.6 gigawatts all at once, with the approval of a new offshore wind plan for Dominion Energy.
