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  Cycling, rapid-start steam turbines to support 510 MW solar plant

  With almost 365 days of sunshine, Ouarzazate in the Moroccan desert is the perfect place to harvest sunlight to produce clean renewable electricity. When completed the Noor complex ...

  On May 14, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Wind-powered oil recovery concept moves closer to implementation

  The DNV GL-led joint industry project, WIN WIN (WINd powered Water INjection), has completed its first phase and determined that wind power could be used to power offshore ...

  On May 3, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  GE delivers battery-gas turbine hybrid to California utility

  GE has delivered the first of the two units of the LM6000 Hybrid Electric Gas Turbine (Hybrid EGT) to Southern California Edison. The plant at Norwalk, California, will ...

  On April 20, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Tidal turbine deployed off Singapore

  Envirotek, together with an international team of experts, has successfully deployed a Schottel Instream Turbine (SIT) in the waters off the Sentosa Boardwalk in Singapore to showcase the viability of tidal energy ...

  On March 11, 2017 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Saudi Arabia gets its first wind turbine

  Executives from Saudi Aramco’s Power Systems and General Electric gathered in Dhahran recently to celebrate the delivery of the first wind turbine in Saudi Arabia. Supplied by GE, ...

  On December 19, 2016 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Georgia Power dedicates new 30-MW solar facility at Fort Stewart

  Georgia Power is currently developing more than 150 MW of solar generation to serve the state’s electric customers through five large-scale projects with the U.S. Army and DON. ...

  On December 10, 2016 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Real cost of renewables

  The “Tragedy of the Commons” is an economic theory first authored by Garrett Hardin.  It states that individuals acting independently and rationally according to their own self-interest, behave contrary ...

  On October 4, 2015 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Factors that drive wind power

  Wind is good, anytime…anywhere! I like how they look and I like what they do.   But, have you ever noticed that all the success claims relate to ...

  On September 17, 2015 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  Wind industry recovery in the US

  After a rough year in 2013, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 3,600 MW in the fourth quarter of 2014 and 4,854 MW for the whole year. This ...

  On July 30, 2015 / By TMI Staff & Contributors
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  GE study challenges fears about wind power

  GE’s Energy Consulting business presented the findings of its frequency response study on wind power and grid resiliency. The study, which was sponsored by the U.S. National Renewable ...

  On August 27, 2014 / By TMI Staff & Contributors