Archives with Category : Powering

16 May 2012 Posted by Carmen Georgeta Neagu

Accelerating Like an Airplane

It may sound strange, but in a way a gas turbine in a power station can really accelerate like an airplane engine, thanks to the “aeroderivative” gas turbine technology which results in an unmatched combination of speed, reliability and efficiency.  Being the result of imagination at work and based on a well-kown track record of life-changing innovations, the aeroderivative technology builds flexible and efficient natural-gas power plants, allowing them to quickly increase or decrease their electricity generation to compensate for variations in wind or solar power, making it easier to use intermittent sources of renewable energy. An aeroderivative gas turbine like the FlexAero LM6000 - assembled at the GE Energy plant in Veresegyház, Hungary - can generate enough electricity for a town with as many as 50,000 homes and it can get from cold iron to 50 megawatts in just 10 minutes.

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13 April 2012 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Regional Takeoff

Many Boeing airplanes have at least one component made in Romania. The first GE Aviation engine designed and produced outside the US comes from the Czech Republic. And the Boeing 787, the current celebrity among airplanes, is powered by a GEnx engine partly created in Poland. In addition, components for GE, CFMI, and Rolls Royce Engines are repaired in Hungary. The CEE region plays a key role in the global business success of GE Aviation.

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10 April 2012 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Remember and Prepare

GE Company Polska and the Warsaw Institute of Aviation offer a Scholarship Program to commemorate the victims of the Smolensk crash that happened two years ago.  The scholarship is financed from a special grant that GE Aviation and GE Energy funded after the tragedy to be used for a cause benefiting Polish citizens. The Warsaw Institute of Aviation matched that grant with additional funding, increasing the total amount.

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28 March 2012 Posted by Ivan Hutter

Turn on the Green Light

Energy saving, quality of light and new EU regulations supporting sustainability are key challenges and opportunities that municipalities and retail shops face when they invest in upgrading lighting systems. The GE Lighting’s Global Technology Center in Budapest developed an innovative, ceramic based solution that offers many of the advantages of LED technology in a more cost effective manner.

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22 March 2012 Posted by Elma Peters

Water Sustains Life

Today is the World Water Day. We need to consider and also call people's attention to the fact that despite calling Earth the “Blue Planet”, clean pure water is not a limitless resource. Freshwater represents only 2.5% of global water resources, 97,5% is saltwater. Furthermore, the world’s aquifers are being drained to lower and lower levels and surface water sources are becoming more challenging to treat for human consumption.

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7 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Remote Health Monitoring

Guest post by Andrea Szabóné Mészáros, Plant Leader at GE Energy Measurement & Control

In the same way that patients can be remotely monitored nowadays, industrial equipment can also benefit from this technology. This is what GE Measurement & Control business is doing at its newest remote condition monitoring center in Fót, Hungary. The center services customers from the United Kingdom to China and from the Central Europe region to Russia and east to Sakhalin Island. The machines that are being monitored are mainly critical assets such as steam and gas turbines, generators, compressors, pumps and extruders in petrochemical and power generation plants and in different oil & gas platforms.

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5 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

How to Engineer Growth

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE’s President and CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova

”Innovation, which allows us to use resources more sparingly and efficiently, to harness for example (editor’s note) new sources of energy, and essentially to produce more with less, will therefore be the main engine of growth,” says Marco Annunziata, GE Chief Global Economist.

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27 February 2012 Posted by Elma Peters

New Medical Practice

Energy utility CEZ Group and GE Energy substantially contributed to upgrade the medical practice from the community of Cogealac in the county of Constanta (Romania). The Permanent Medical Centre, providing services around the clock, was renovated and equipped with cutting edge medical devices and extended with a new balneo-physiotherapy ward. Following the extension works, the Medical Centre will now also host the county ambulance unit which provides emergency intervention services for the Northern region of Constanta County.

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15 February 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Green is Green

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE’s President and CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova

The CEE  region and its countries are at a crossroad: we have to decide (1) whether we go for the best in first-class technologies when it comes to building a new and modern infrastructure that will stay with us for decades to come and (2) what role this region should and can play in the global innovation game.

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8 February 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Driving Innovation in Bulgaria

On January 24^th, GE and the US Embassy partnered in organizing a stakeholder dialogue in Sofia on today’s challenges in sustainable energy, water and process technologies, efficient lighting and affordable healthcare. Some 170 representatives of the state administration, businesses, local authorities and NGOs gathered to talk about how the economy can benefit from GE’s technologies and solutions in the future. The event took place at a time when the Bulgarian government was in the process of redefining its national priorities towards innovation and growth.

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