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Offshore Wind

Make It Big: GE Plant That Builds Football-Field-Long Wind Turbine Blades To Expand Production

Tomas Kellner
October 19, 2021

The blades for the Haliade-X, the most powerful wind turbine in operation, are a sight to behold. Longer than a football field, the sinuous blades stretch 107 meters from end to end, enabling them to wring megawatts of renewable energy from offshore winds.

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GE, GRTgaz, Ineris, McPhy and the French network of Universities of Technology sign research memorandum of understanding to accelerate innovation around hydrogen

September 30, 2021
  • Bringing together French industrial champions and key academic institutions, this research MOU intends to advance innovation around hydrogen for all uses, including low-carbon projects for gas power generation and industrial applications
  • This MOU establishes a hydrogen (H2) research framework with dedicated resources in France to design and conduct a joint program, fostering collaboration and innovation in support of the energy transition.

BELFORT, France – September 30th 2021 – General Electric, GRTgaz, Ineris, M

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Offshore Wind

Homespun Wisdom: This Breton Factory Is Making Powerful Turbines For France's 1st Offshore Wind Farm

September 23, 2020
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If you’ve ever flown over the coast of Western Europe and marveled at the view of giant offshore wind farms breaking the monotony of the sea, then one thing is certain: You weren’t flying over France.

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Renewables

Team Spirit: What It Takes To Build A Factory That Makes The World’s Longest Wind Turbine Blade

Tomas Kellner
September 19, 2019

Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy. Commissioned by France’s last king, Louis XVI, championed by Napoleon and occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II, the port was key to opening a direct shipping route for supplies from the U.S. The Germans garrisoned there knew it well — and put up a fierce fight.

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D-Day

Team Effort: D-Day Victory Came As Many Focused on One Goal

Tomas Kellner
Brendan Coffey
June 04, 2019

The defeat of the Nazi terror that had taken hold of Europe started with women like Marie Kappa, a government inspector based at a GE factory in Erie, Ohio, who inspected GE-produced military equipment. Her efforts carried on through the supply chain all the way to Pvt. Grant Crego, a 19-year-old who landed on the beach at Normandy in 1944, less than a year removed from resigning his job at GE’s Schenectady, New York, plant to enlist in the war effort.

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analytics

Take A Load Off: How Software Is Cutting The Power Bill Of An Iconic French Plant

September 12, 2018
The city of Belfort in northeastern France knows all about speed and power. The hardworking town, which lies between the Vosges and Jura mountains, has made railway locomotives for nearly 150 years. The first TGVs, France’s iconic intercity high-speed trains, also rolled out of Belfort.
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Offshore Wind

The X Factor: Here’s What It Takes To Build The Tower For The World’s Most Powerful Offshore Wind Turbine

Tomas Kellner
May 25, 2018
"Some 6 million people from around the world travel to Paris each year to climb Gustave Eiffel’s eponymous tower. Industrial engineer Daniel Castell is now working on a structure that will also reach great heights. An engineering marvel in its own right, chances are that very few people will ever see it — but millions will benefit from it.
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blockchain

Vive La Révolution Digitale: A Parisian Suburb Started Testing A Renewable Energy Blockchain

March 27, 2017
The Jean Jaurès elementary school in the town of Rueil-Malmaison outside of Paris is full of French charm. Light streams into a room on the second floor through colored glass casting playful reflections on the floor. Like all schools, the place is an incubator for young brains but also for a piece of cutting-edge technology: the world’s first “green” blockchain.
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VR

That’s Powerful: GE Is Using Virtual Reality To Train Nuclear Engineers

March 13, 2017

Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security clearance and to complete rigorous safety training before they can step inside.
This arduous process creates a unique challenge: How do you train new maintenance crews when simply getting access is so difficult? One clever answer is virtual reality.

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Software

An Office With A View: New "Digital Foundry" In Paris Is Forging GE’s Software Future

Tomas Kellner
Kristin Kloberdanz
November 07, 2016
Ping-Pong tables and foosball aren’t the sorts of things people typically associate with a 124-year-old company that builds turbines for power plants and engines for planes. But they are part of the package at GE’s new “Digital foundry” that opened a short walk from beaux-arts halls of the Paris Opera this summer. “You are surrounded by these contrasts of old and new; years of deep expertise and the desire to chart the future,” said Adrien Rivierre, a media manager at the place who recently showed GE Reports around. “This is the most interesting place to work in the city.”
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