Roger Martella, GE Vernova’s chief corporate officer and chief sustainability officer, used to tell the story of the company by starting in the past. He felt the weight of history as he made his way to work each morning, remembering how Thomas Edison built the world’s first commercial power plant on Pearl Street in Manhattan, a small coal-fired station that powered more than 10,000 incandescent lamps, before founding the General Electric Company in 1892.
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Fifteen years ago, the world’s power grids were starting to change fast. As coal plants retired and renewables expanded, power systems needed technology that could deliver both flexibility and scale. GE Vernova’s H-class gas turbine was built for that moment, and its record-breaking combined-cycle efficiency helped make it the fastest-growing fleet in its class.
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