Company continues to grow revenues, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet other ecomagination goals
FAIRFIELD, Conn.--27 May 2009-- GE today announced that it has surpassed its first ecomagination goal to reduce its own greenhouse gas intensity, and is making progress against its other goals for revenue growth, water and technology innovation.
Innovative Technology Produces Extra Power without Additional Emissions
Power-Gen Europe 2009
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COLOGNE, GERMANY---May 26, 2009---An innovative waste heat recovery system from GE Oil & Gas, which can enable a gas turbine to produce additional power without any additional emissions and no water use, recently became the first GE ecomagination-certified product to originate from GE's Global Research Center near Munich, Germany. Ecomagination is GE's corporate-wide initiative to help customers meet environmental challenges.
LG&E, GE and Participants Learning From Smart Meter/Appliances Pilot Program
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Six months into the GE Consumer & Industrial and Louisville Gas & Electric Company (LG&E), pilot program that uses smart meters, smart or demand response appliances, and a tiered pricing program - results reveal participants are choosing money-saving options. The program tests the use of "smart" appliances to help offset energy costs when higher prices are implemented during peak usage times -- generally 3-8 p.m.
ATLANTA--21 May 2009-- GE today announced that it has completed the installation of smart grid technologies to help Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) overcome the two major challenges of power interruptions: restoration and customer communications. The newly installed GE PowerOn Outage Management System (OMS) helps CSU respond more quickly to power outages, while providing consumers with updated restoration-time estimates when outages do occur.
GE's Jenbacher Cogeneration Units to Power 30.4-MWel Project, Helping to Save up to About 185,000 Tons of CO2 per Year
JENBACH, AUSTRIA---May 19, 2009---Macedonia Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski today formally opened the country's first natural gas-cogeneration plant certified for international carbon credit financing in the capital city of Skopje.
State-of-the-Art Desalination Plant Opens in Spain Using GE Technology
TREVOSE, Pa.---May 19, 2009---Spain, one of the most arid European countries, has a long-standing water supply strategy to desalinate and use brackish river water. That effort has just taken a giant step forward as GE and Aigües Ter-Llobregat (ATLL) have announced the opening of one of the world's largest and most technologically advanced river water desalination plants, near Barcelona.
Designation Reflects Technology's Measurable Operating Savings and Environmental Benefits
WILMINGTON, N.C.--19 May 2009-- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced that its Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) technology has earned recognition as a GE ecomagination product.
Ecomagination is GE's corporate-wide initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing operational and environmental challenges.
ERIE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today the next step in its commitment to develop leading hybrid technology. The Company announced plans to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant for advanced storage batteries.
