GE Power’s Grid Solutions has unveiled new products that address customers’ needs to adapt to a more digitalized, decentralized and decarbonized energy electric grid. In the past, a simpler grid model transmitted electricity from large generation plants to end users. However, with carbon dioxide levels the highest they have ever been in 800,000 years, a modern grid…
Mitigating risks from cyber attacks
By Michelle Froese, Senior editor Windpower Engineering & Development Last year, the Energy Department tested how state and emergency management officials would respond to a cyber incident. The simulated attack would take out power across seven states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, affecting infrastructure and some 16.7-million customers. The result? “Many planning and communications…
First Wind selects GE’s PowerUp to increase output from its U.S. wind farms
First Wind has implemented PowerUp services at its Milford I and Milford II farms in Utah, and plans to expand its use further into U.S. GE wind turbine fleet In one year, more than 1,400 wind turbines contracted under the PowerUp platform With PowerUp services installed at Milford, First Wind could realize up to…