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On Tuesday, GE announced its plan to form three global public companies focused on the growth sectors of aviation, healthcare and energy. This will be accomplished by: Pursuing a tax-free spin-off of GE Healthcare, creating a pure-play company in early 2023, in which GE expects to retain a stake of 19.9%; and Combining GE Renewable…

To increase the role played by offshore wind energy in mitigating climate change, deployment needs to ramp up across the globe. A new roadmap launched by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and the UN Global Compact aims to achieve that goal. An increasingly busy marine space is one of the key barriers to increasing…

Rachel Kyte, Tufts University Young people poured into the streets of Glasgow on Nov. 5, 2021, angry and impatient as the first week of the U.N. climate summit ended. Their anger is matched by anxiety in the conference halls as the enormity of what has to be achieved in such a short period of time…

By Mason Adams, Energy News Network Newly emboldened Virginia Republicans are vowing to roll back the state’s landmark clean energy reforms enacted by Democrats over the last two years. Virginia voters last week elected Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin as governor and a Republican majority in the House of Delegates, ending two years of unilateral Democratic…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip The New York Power Authority is exploring the ability of transitioning a natural gas-fired turbine to run on green hydrogen with a demonstration project at Brentwood Power Station. CRDX is providing its hydrogen gas blending system for the first-of-its-kind demonstration project, which will analyze the effects of different concentrations of hydrogen blended with…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip A microgrid control lab opened at the University of Central Florida on Tuesday, the product of a partnership between Florida Power & Light and GE Digital to simulate a modern grid control room and accelerate research. The Microgrid Control Lab features control center equipment and software that UCF engineering faculty and students will…

Contributed by Gia Schneider Last summer saw the second consecutive August my home state of California has faced a strained electric grid and associated grid outages. Climate change-induced heat waves are once again increasing demand for electricity just as the impacts of wildfires, drought and a diminished snowpack have coalesced to reduce electricity supplies and…

Follow @EngelsAngle</scrip As progress continues on Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind, the largest offshore wind project in development in the U.S., the estimated cost of the project has increased to $10 billion. Dominion Energy CEO Bob Blue told investors last week that the projected levelized cost of energy for the project is now $87 per megawatt-hour,…

The Clean Energy States Alliance recently released a new report that looks at the development of green hydrogen (H2) from offshore wind. Georgena Terry chatted with report author Val Stori to glean some of the highlights from the report. Scottish offshore energy company Equinor has revealed its preferred floating wind foundation design for full-scale gigawatt (GW) commercial…