Company Delivering Electrical Power Distribution and Protection Systems for the Olympic International Broadcast Center
ATLANTA - August 3, 2016 - When the Olympic cauldron at Maracana Stadium is ignited signaling the opening of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, GE Energy Connections (NYSE: GE) will be there helping to deliver the electric power to broadcast that moment to almost a billion people[1] around the world.
ATLANTA - July 27, 2016 - The records of this year’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be measured by how fast, how high or how long, with the difference between a Gold medal and a Silver medal often marked in fractions of seconds or inches. GE (NYSE: GE) is using its own set of metrics - sometimes measured in milliseconds - to monitor critical power quality and protection systems it is deploying across all 32 Olympic venues and facilities at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
WILMINGTON, North Carolina-July 26, 2016-GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced the first North American implementation of the newest chemical decontamination solution which was utilized to successfully decontaminate and mitigate stress corrosion cracking in portions of a nuclear power plant’s recirculation piping.
ATLANTA - July 22, 2016 - The athletes competing in next month’s Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil count their wins and losses, Olympic Game Gold, Silver or Bronze, by hard-won metrics measured in seconds or even milliseconds[1].
BADEN, SWITZERLAND-July 21, 2016-GE’s Power Services (NYSE: GE) business today announced the completion of a gas turbine upgrade project in Oregon at a time when U.S. utilities continue to increase the efficiency and flexibility of their older combined-cycle power fleets.
JULY 15, 2016 - New York - To help inspire and prepare young people for a rapidly changing and highly competitive job market, the GE Foundation is launching an innovative learning programme to provide 16 to 18 year olds with practical work experience in STEM careers for the workforce of tomorrow.
ATLANTA - July 12, 2016 - There may be a full four years between every Olympic Games, but deploying Olympic Games-scale power distribution, backup power and protection systems typically comes down to the final months - or even weeks - before the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. For the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in August, GE Energy Connections (NYSE: GE) is implementing a series of “fast-track” processes based on lessons learned from work at five previous Olympic Games to help scale up the power for more than 32 Olympic venues and facilities.
Paris - 12 July 2016 -The GE Renewable Energy offshore wind turbine plant in Saint-Nazaire (France) is completing the manufacturing of its first commercial series of Haliade™ Offshore wind
· NOV and GE Oil & Gas bring together complementary products and capabilities to deliver fully integrated solutions to the offshore production market
· New FPSO industrial platform enables repeatability and provides greater value to customers through economies of scale
· Enhanced designs, technology and industrialized supply chain expected to improve the life-cycle economics of offshore development
