Capturing Energy with GE's Dynamic Braking System

The ecomagination team at GE is pushing renewable energy limits with heat capture and hybrid dynamic braking on trains.
The energy that's generated when stopping a train is quite substantial and GE's ecomagination team is discovering ways to capture that energy. In a conventional train engine, that energy is dissipated as heat and lost to the atmosphere.

GE is developing technologies that can capture and store that energy in a series of sophisticated regenerative batteries, using the hybrid dynamic braking system developed by GE's ecomagination team.

The energy can then be reused by the crew on demand, reducing fuel consumption by as much as 15 percent and emissions by as much as 50% compared to most freight locomotives in use today.



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