The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) provides global leadership in fundamental wind energy science research, development, and validation activities that enable low-cost wind energy. The Office pursues opportunities across all U.S. wind sectors — land-based utility-scale wind, offshore wind, distributed wind — as well as … [continued]
North America’s largest independent renewable energy company, Invenergy, is partnering with GE Renewable Energy to build the 2 GW Wind Catcher onshore wind farm, which will be the world’s second largest and the United States’ largest wind farm once completed.
As of December 2015, there were more than 8,800 wind techs — guys who climb wind turbines to perform maintenance — and wind techs are the single fastest-growing job in America, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
GE’s wind portfolio has expanded to 30,000+ turbines worldwide with the acquisition of Alstom. This concurrently expanded GE’s European presence by 50%. As it expanded one of the world’s largest renewable energy footprints, GE cited its goal is to drive the wind industry forward — by “joining the shared expertise of two innovative … [continued]
One of India’s leading renewable energy independent power producers, Mytrah Energy, has raised fresh funds to expand its generation capacity. Mytrah Energy has revealed that it has managed to raise around $95 million to fund implementation of 100 MW wind energy projects. The company now has a fully funded project … [continued]
GE announced Monday that it would be providing 33 wind turbines to the Sapphire Wind Power farm in the southeastern Pakistani province of Sindh, located just outside the provincial capital of Karachi. The move marks GE’s first wind order in the country, and takes Pakistan another step towards its own (meagre) renewable energy … [continued]
GE is launching a new wind turbine tower next week and CleanTechnica just got a chance to go inside and see what makes it tick, so we’re going to share that with you right now before practically anybody else gets wind of it. The new tower, which GE has dubbed … [continued]
As I wrote previously, when covering the unveiling of GE’s PowerUp solution in Chicago, PowerUp is a predictive “Industrial Internet” technology that can boost the output of a wind turbine by up to 5%, resulting in a profit increase of 20% (per turbine). At the event, I got to spend some … [continued]
As you may recall, I got to write about GE’s new PowerUp platform from the launch event in Chicago* just last month, and also got to conduct follow-up interviews with GE CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt and the head of GE Renewable Energy Services, Andy Holt. As a very brief summary … [continued]
A couple of years ago, GE jumped into the solar manufacturing arena in a pretty big way. In April 2011, we announced that GE had just invested $600 million into a thin-film solar factory in Aurora, Colorado. GE announced in early 2012 that it had doubled its investments in solar … [continued]
