This industrial giant makes a wide range of GE smart grid hardware and software. In addition to many GE smart grid products, the Fairfield, CT-based firm also produces aircraft engines, locomotives, appliances, lighting, and medical imaging equipment. GE smart grid competitors include ABB and Siemens. The company had 2010 sales of $150 billion.
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What's on your smart grid shopping list? We've rounded up new products that do some of the heavy lifting in grid reliability - from a utility-scale inverter technology from Eaton to a bushing monitoring system for transformers released by GE.
GE Energy is on a tear. On the same day the company launched a massive, end-to-end communications platform, it also announced an end-to-end system for fault detection, isolation and restoration. Click for more on the system GE claims could reduce typical customer outage time from hours to under a minute.
The smart grid communications wars look more and more like mixed martial arts. Every time we think we have a champion, another bigger, badder contender shows up. Learn what GE is offering up in the way of a network - and what sets it apart from most everyone else.
Two recent wins for General Electric's Grid IQ offering signal not just where GE is headed. They also suggest two important trends for 2012. First, the move to "cloud-based" hosted services is under way in earnest. Second, many of the sector's biggest players are targeting coops and municipals for their next round of deals. Click for more on these trends and a look at how they are playing out at munis in Georgia and Florida.
GE's PowerOn distribution management system will be used by the Flemish electric and gas distribution utility EANDIS to help improve grid and operational efficiency and integrate renewable energy to help meet the European Union’s goal of 20 percent carbon reduction by 2020.
When we talk about sustainable alternative sources of energy as part of a smarter electric grid, garbage isn't the first thing that comes to mind. But GE and a Mississippi solid waste management company recently announced the start-up of a landfill gas-to-electricity project to help support the regional electric grid. There's more on the story inside.
No surprise that some of the world's biggest utilities are involved in pretty significant smart grid initiatives. You'd expect that. But what may raise an eyebrow or two are some of the smart grid efforts under way in places we seldom hear about. Like the Flathead Valley in Montana or the island of Mallorca in the Mediterranean Sea. Click inside for a peek at a few lesser-known but mighty interesting projects.
With the Plug-In Conference under way this week in Raleigh we're seeing a flurry of announcements from the EV charging front, including GE's plan to sell its WattStation wall-mount units at Lowe's stores. Also interesting are two new attempts to cure range anxiety – one a GPS-like service, the other a portable charging unit. Learn more inside.
We’re here with another slate of new or updated smart grid technologies we think you'll want to know about – from a real-life V2G technology to a home energy management system that looks like it belongs in outer space. And if grid optimization or smart grid security is on your radar, we've highlighted new developments there too. Click inside for details.
GE and German self-powered wireless technology company EnOcean are working together to combine technologies that will provide simpler, cheaper ways to make existing buildings intelligent. Click inside for more on this advance in smart buildings.
In a wide-ranging video interview, GE smart grid czar John McDonald talks with Jesse Berst about grid optimization and efficiency as the next smart grid wave. He also explains how GE's dogged efforts on the standards front have had an interesting impact on the company's own internal operations.
Security expert and blogger Andy Bochman provides an overview and his take on some of the major energy news stories of the day, such as Germany's fast retreat from nuclear power, responses to constant security threats and the speedy ramp up (and falling costs) of renewables. An engaging story on an interesting range of issues.
GE's smart grid portfolio will get bigger with its announcement that it will acquire Irish power line monitoring company FMC-Tech. Click inside for the details and why SGN's Jesse Berst sees the acquisition as a perfect example of two growing smart grid trends.
It's official: Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. will buy Switzerland-based meter maker Landis+Gyr. The deal was announced today after a few weeks of feverish speculation. Click inside for the details and Toshiba's post-acquisition smart grid plans.
Landis+Gyr is on the auction block and GE is one of the bidders. While details are slim (it's not a public auction), Jesse Berst has some thoughts on how such an acquisition could work out for GE. Click inside to read more.
GE plans to launch a major technology center in Markham, Ontario. GE, in partnership with the Ontario government, will build the $40 million Grid IQ™ Innovation Center which will develop and manufacture grid modernization technologies and will include a global testing and simulation laboratory.
GE and Fuji Electric Holdings Co., Ltd. will work together to provide Japan's utilities with next-generation metering technology to help advance the country's smart grid initiatives. In addition to improved reliability and efficiency, the smarter meters will also make it easier to integrate renewable energy sources.
China is spending billions on smart grid technologies and infrastructure, but has been behind the eight ball on one critical issue: no smart grid standards. GE, which is involved in numerous joint ventures in the country, took it a step further when it agreed to help the Chinese develop a set of national standards.
Mike Beyerle of GE describes the ways in which the GE Nucleus can transform smart appliances into part of the smart grid, saving energy and improving convenience for homeowners.
The Wi-Fi Alliance says a recent GE white paper endorsing Zigbee technology over WiFi in home area network applications is "flawed" and "inaccurate" because the GE study relied on old technologies that don't reflect today's standards. What do you think? Vote in today's QuickPoll.
Andrew Crapo, senior professional scientist at GE Global Research, explores how various information models could be used as semantic models for energy applications and the grid. The technical paper was honored at Grid Interop 2010.
A GE research study has found that in terms of cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency, Zigbee's wireless communications technology tops WiFi technology. Researchers determined that WiFi used a little more than twice the power than Zigbee in home area network applications.
GE plans to swing into the home area network market with a full suite of smart appliances and a home energy management system. Described as a "whole-home" solution, GE says its offering will give consumers more convenience, choice and control.
GE and its VC partners announced a $55 million investment in leading power grid technology companies and academic institutions as part of the company's recent $200 million "GE ecoimagination Challenge." In this first round announcement, energy storage, utility security and EV charging services are among the concept breakthroughs tapped for funding. GE also announced five innovation winners that will receive $100,000 each to develop their smart grid concepts.
It has taken a while, but more and more observers are calling the Texas "experiment" with retail competition a success... and even suggesting it may be a model for the rest of the country. Is it?
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