In a historical milestone for the power industry, GE Renewable Energy’s Grid Solutions (NYSE-GE) unveiled the world’s first 420 kV, 63 kA g³ gas-insulated substation (GIS) circuit-breaker1 prototype.

GE Renewable Energy’s Hydro division signed a contract with SPIC Brasil to lead the full modernization project of São Simão Hydroelectric Power Plant’s generating units and auxiliary services.

GE Research, the central technology development arm for the General Electric Company (GE), is leading a $10.5 million project through the Defense Advanced Research Agency’s (DARPA) Automated Rapid Certification of Software (ARCOS) program, to revolutionize the process of certifying software for critical military and industrial systems.

The ZEBRA (Zero wastE Blade ReseArch) consortium is today marking a new step forward on the industry’s transition to a circular economy with the production of the first prototype of its 100% recyclable wind turbine blade.

Working to make nuclear power an even more attractive carbon-free energy solution, a team of scientists at GE Research have been awarded $4.5 million through ARPA-E’s ONWARDS program to develop a new inspection technique that would encourage the recycling of fuel for advanced nuclear reactor concepts coming online.

GE Digital today announced the availability of the latest version of its industry-leading CIMPLICITY 2022 HMI/SCADA software. A proven, secure-by-design automation platform, CIMPLICITY^® provides true client/server visualization and control – from single machines to plant locations spanning the world – helping industrial companies manage operations, enable the connected worker, and achieve fast time to value with no/low code innovation.

GE Digital today announced its newest addition to the Proficy Software portfolio, Proficy Orchestration Hub. This new software solution provides out-of-the-box tools to unify manufacturing product information from disparate data systems, transforms and organizes raw business-oriented information into production-ready formats, and orchestrates the information across factory floor systems at a single site or multiple sites.

John D. McDonald, smart grid business development leader at GE’s Grid Solutions with over 47 years of experience in the electric utility transmission and distribution industry, has been elected as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineers (NAE).

GE Renewable Energy announced today the opening of a new Renewable Hybrids factory in Vallam, near Chennai, India, where 250 people are employed today.

GE Digital today announced the availability of its latest version of Proficy Historian, a best-in-class historian software solution that collects industrial time-series and Alarms & Events (A&E) data to analyze asset and process performance to drive business value.