Focusing on four of the biggest challenges facing the grid, specifically modernization, decarbonization, digitization and electrification, GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business spotlights its holistic approach to building the grid of the future at this year’s CIGRE.

With a focus on enhancing hydropower’s role as a grid stabilizer to support other renewables assets coming online, GE Research, the technology development arm for the General Electric Company, has been awarded a 30- month, $4.3 million project through US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office to improve both the operating capacity and flexibility of hydropower assets.

At the Farnborough International Airshow, GE announced it completed the world’s first test of a megawatt (MW)-class and multi-kilovolt (kV) hybrid electric propulsion system in altitude conditions that simulate single-aisle commercial flight.

Companies sign Memorandum of Understanding to combine cloud technologies with high fidelity digital data and analytics and operational and financial data sources to drive standardized reporting across aircraft operations. Goal = reduce carbon emissions in the Aviation industry.

GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions business has been awarded a contract from Energinet, owner, operator, and developer of transmission systems for electricity and natural gas in Denmark, for 31 SF6-free gas-insulated substation bays.

GE Research and GE Renewable Energy are partnering with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) on a $1.75M U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO) project to design, build, and field test a 400kWh, 2-hour Commercial and Industrial (C&I) Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to enable and support Behind the Meter (BTM) PV Solar integration into the grid.

GE Digital today announced its new Accelerator product line adding best-in-class software tools to help empower companies in asset-intensive energy industries to quickly configure its Asset Performance Management (APM) and other offerings.

GE Digital, a leading and innovative provider of solutions in the Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) market, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Execution Systems for its Proficy Smart Factory MES software solution.

GE Digital today announced that Flexjet, a global fractional private jet provider known for its high safety standards, has added Maintenance Insight to the software solutions it deploys to process flight data.

Today GE announced the launch of Lifespan, a new digital product portfolio enabling customers to optimize renewable asset performance and operations across their fleet.