Five A&NZ entrepreneurs awarded $100,000 each for breakthrough low-carbon solutions
Sydney, Australia: Five homegrown low-carbon innovations have been announced winners of GE's first ever ecomagination Challenge in Australia and New Zealand.
The winners were presented with $100,000 each by Jeff Immelt, GE Chairman and CEO, and Steve Sargent, President and CEO GE Australia & New Zealand, at an event in Sydney last night.
What do Twitter updates, NASA’s tree-spotting satellite, and special effects from a Tom Cruise thriller have in common with the utility poles outside your house? A lot, it turns out. They can all pitch in to keep your lights on.
Hurricane Sandy has cut power to six million homes across the northeast of the U.S. on Monday night, breaking trees and ripping power lines. But also insidious was the surging sea that knocked out electricity across New York City and in many seaside towns. Consolidated Edison had preventively shut down the grid in neighborhoods prone to flooding, but the utility still experienced “the largest storm related outage in our history.”
GE expands presence in fast-growing Russian energy market
Technology to help meet Russia's growing need for cogeneration
JV with Russian partners INTER RAO UES and UEC
Rybinsk facility to start producing gas turbines in Q2'2014
Rybinsk, Russia -- October 31, 2012 -- GE (NYSE: GE) and two Russian joint venture partners, INTER RAO UES and United Engine Corporation, today held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Russian Gas Turbines LLC Manufacturing Facility.
* Технологии компании GE используются на всех официальных соревновательных площадках и коммерческих объектах Олимпийских игр 2012 года в Лондоне. Стоимость предоставленных услуг и товаров превышает 100 млн долл.
* GE предоставила инфраструктурные решения для Олимпиад в Турине (2006г.), Пекине (2008г.), Ванкувере (2010г.) и Лондоне (2012г.).
* Для Олимпиады в Сочи в 2014 году GE поставит две газовые турбины для обеспечения бесперебойного и эффективного электроснабжения
