Inside the Medupi coal-fired power plant, South Africa
GE Africa (Lagos)
Software Offers Cleaner Future to African Coal-Fired Power Plants
As much as we would like coal to stay in the ground, the fuel still supplies nearly 30 percent of global energy consumption - its highest share since 1970 - and provides 40 percent of the world's electricity. While this number is expected to drop to 30 percent by 2040 (34 percent in America), coal will remain the backbone of the power systems in Africa as well as other developing countries, despite new capacity coming from natural gas and renewables. If coal-fired plants are not going away, GE Power's Ganesh Bell and his team want to make them cleaner and more efficient. More on GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
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Egypt: Digital Power Plants Can Charge Egypt's Economy
GE Africa, 24 March 2016
Egypt's growing economy and expanding population require more electricity to power manufacturing plants, industry facilities, offices, workshops and people's homes. Building new… Read more »
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Africa: Boston Startup will Help GE Make Coal-Fired Power Plants Cleaner With Software
GE Africa, 19 April 2016
You've heard the story before. Uber, the world's most valuable cab company, owns no taxis. Airbnb, the world's busiest accommodations business, owns no hotels and Facebook, the… Read more »
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30 September 2015
Ganesh Bell, GE's First Digital Officer, Talks about the Software of the Industrial Internet - GE Reports
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Ganesh Bell, GE's first Chief Digital Officer was at Minds and Machines in San Francisco, where he explained why industrial companies will be ... see more »
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26 June 2013
How GE Tracks Every Key Component in a Power Plant
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How can we harness the power of the industrial internet? GE introduces a way to track every key component of a power plant. This new times series ... see more »
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Gorge Farm, in Kenya's Naivasha Rift valley, is the first grid-connect anaerobic digester power plant in Africa. The 800ha vegetable farm--and also the largest fresh-produce ... Read more »
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The first Africa installation of GE's solar hybrid technology will go ahead later this year at the Northern Noodles factory in Kaduna, northern Nigeria. The state of the Read more »
