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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 12:10:03 PM
Charged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook
Charged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook - Mar 15, 2017
Digital technologies are also helping GE build better machines. GE Power’s latest-generation H-class gas turbine, for example, can carry 6,000 sensors measuring heat, pressure, vibration and other qualities. Although one of the turbines is currently the beating heart of the world’s most efficient power plant in Bouchain, France, the business built a high-tech test stand in Greenville, South Carolina, and used information from the tests to keep improving the machine. “The H-class was designed for continuous upgrades,” said John Lammas, chief technology officer at GE Power. “We condensed decades of gas turbine development into a few years.” The Bouchain plant’s efficiency clocked it at 62 percent in 2016, according to Guinness World Records. But Lammas and his team are already testing a machine promising to be 64 percent efficient. “All the physics remains the same, but the efficiency has a value of millions of dollars.” Customers around the world see this too — in China, Harbin Electric Corp. signed a contract with GE to install China’s first H-class turbines, scheduled for later next year.
To move fast, Lammas is also leveraging methods and materials developed by GE Aviation for jet engine turbines and new additive manufacturing methods like 3D printing to produce designs that were previously difficult or impossible to make before. GE calls these synergies the GE Store. “Additive is changing the world for us” by allowing the business to quickly create new prototypes, increase speed to market and improve performance, Lammas told investors.
Much of the same playbook applies to GE’s Renewable Energy business. The unit benefited from the Alstom deal by gaining a position in the rapidly growing offshore wind market and in hydropower. Like GE Power, his business connected all 13,000 GE wind turbines in the U.S. to Predix, allowing engineers to remotely monitor them from a single control center. “This Industrial Internet thing is like a chain reaction,” said Pete McCabe, who runs the unit’s onshore business.
An H-class gass turbine spins inside the world’s most efficient power plant in Bouchain, France. Image credit: GE Reports
GE Oil & Gas is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. Image credit: GE Oil & Gas
Charged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook - Mar 15, 2017
Digital technologies are also helping GE build better machines. GE Power’s latest-generation H-class gas turbine, for example, can carry 6,000 sensors measuring heat, pressure, vibration and other qualities. Although one of the turbines is currently the beating heart of the world’s most efficient power plant in Bouchain, France, the business built a high-tech test stand in Greenville, South Carolina, and used information from the tests to keep improving the machine. “The H-class was designed for continuous upgrades,” said John Lammas, chief technology officer at GE Power. “We condensed decades of gas turbine development into a few years.” The Bouchain plant’s efficiency clocked it at 62 percent in 2016, according to Guinness World Records. But Lammas and his team are already testing a machine promising to be 64 percent efficient. “All the physics remains the same, but the efficiency has a value of millions of dollars.” Customers around the world see this too — in China, Harbin Electric Corp. signed a contract with GE to install China’s first H-class turbines, scheduled for later next year.
To move fast, Lammas is also leveraging methods and materials developed by GE Aviation for jet engine turbines and new additive manufacturing methods like 3D printing to produce designs that were previously difficult or impossible to make before. GE calls these synergies the GE Store. “Additive is changing the world for us” by allowing the business to quickly create new prototypes, increase speed to market and improve performance, Lammas told investors.
Much of the same playbook applies to GE’s Renewable Energy business. The unit benefited from the Alstom deal by gaining a position in the rapidly growing offshore wind market and in hydropower. Like GE Power, his business connected all 13,000 GE wind turbines in the U.S. to Predix, allowing engineers to remotely monitor them from a single control center. “This Industrial Internet thing is like a chain reaction,” said Pete McCabe, who runs the unit’s onshore business.
An H-class gass turbine spins inside the world’s most efficient power plant in Bouchain, France. Image credit: GE Reports
GE Oil & Gas is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. Image credit: GE Oil & Gas
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