General Electric (GE) recently announced it has put up a total of 300 wind turbines in Brazil. At the Annual Brazilian Wind Power Conference held In Rio De Janeiro, GE also announced it will put up another 600 units in the Latin American country. Meanwhile, the company plans to open … [continued]
ESolar’s CEO puts it directly: “Our objective is to compete straight up with the best-in-class PVs.” “What is so unique about our technology is the modular nature of it and the scalability,” explained eSolar President/CEO John Van Scoter. “Instead of one-size-fits-all,” he said, “we can literally build these up just like … [continued]
Engineers at GE Global Research recently tested a prototype Interior Permanent Magnet traction motor that they believe could help extend the range of electric vehicles and hybrids before recharging or needing fuel. Traction motors are the key ingredient in hybrid and electric vehicles, converting electrical energy into motion. The new … [continued]
Rolling out smart grids for electricity, gas, water and waste management are seen as keys to green economic growth, as well as reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency and ramping up renewable energy. Oracle is introducing a new smart grid device management system that it says can reduce complexity as well as costs.
General Electric (GE) Industrial Solutions and PayPal are teaming up to create a user-friendly payment system that charges users’ electric vehicles (EV) at any of GE’s Wattstations. The deal between PayPal and GE Industrial solutions will allow drivers a secure and easy way to pay for charging their EVs at GE’s … [continued]
Belectric, a world market leader in photovoltaic system integration, has integrated the world’s first 1500-volt operation into the grid. The open-space solar power plant is the first to utilize the full power bandwidth defined by the European Union’s Low Voltage Directive, and could result in […]
GE is introducing what it is calling a major energy efficiency breakthrough for desalination plants. Its new IPER system promises to reduce the energy demands of desalination pumping by at least 10 percent. Its new Integrated Pump and Energy Recovery (IPER) system is “a major engineering breakthrough that overcomes a … [continued]
Due to the falling prices of solar panels around the world, General Electric has put its 400 MW cadmium-telluride solar factory in Aurora, Colorado, on hold. This project has been in development for over a year, and was already announced when GE purchased PrimeStar Solar in April 2011. Even … [continued]
GE has announced that Swedish energy developer Triventus Wind Power AB will use GE wind turbine technology to power a planned 27.5-megawatt wind farm project to be built near Falkenberg on Sweden’s west coast. […]
Flying high on sugarcane may once have been little more than the lyric to a song. Not any longer. […]
