Seth Martin
GE Corporate, Director Financial Communications
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Matt Cribbins
Vice President, Investor Communications, GE Corporate
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FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE (NYSE:GE) announced today that Synchrony Financial has received approval from the Federal Reserve Board to become a standalone savings and loan holding company and to retain control of Synchrony Bank, following the completion of GE’s proposed Exchange Offer. This approval represents another major milestone in the planned separation of Synchrony Financial from GE.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. GE will post its 2015 third-quarter financial results on its investor relations website at www.ge.com/investor at approximately 6:30 a.m. ET on October 16th, 2015.
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New York-October 13, 2015-GE (GE:NYSE) today announced that Brackett Denniston, GE’s general counsel and senior vice president, will retire from the Company at the end of 2015. Alex Dimitrief, currently senior vice president and general counsel for GE Capital, will assume the role of GE general counsel and senior vice president, effective November 1, and Brackett will focus on the Alstom transition and Appliances transaction through the end of the year.
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GE パワーコンバージョンは、宮城県の「パシフィコ・エナジー古川メガソーラープロジェクト」において、太陽光発電所向けに当社のブリリアンス* ソーラー・インバータを受注しました。古川太陽光発電所は宮城県大崎市に建設中の出力56.9メガワット（直流ベース）の太陽光発電施設で、当社としてインバータを納入するのは、細江メガソーラープロジェクトに続く案件となります。日本の最大規模のソーラープロジェクトに参画することで、日本が掲げている太陽光発電の導入量を2030年までに53ギガワットにするという目標達成に向けて貢献していきます。
当社で開発したインバータを導入することで、高い変換効率と優れたグリッドのパフォーマンスにより、太陽光発電のニーズに対応できます。インバータのほかに、変圧器、リングメインユニット、リコンバイナーをパッケージ化して提供することで、発電所へのスムーズな導入・設置をサポートします。また、インバータの供給にともない、当社は20年間の長期サービス契約（LTSA）も締結しました。このサービス契約に基づき、20年間にわたりインバータが最適なレベルで確実に稼働できるように保守を全面的にサポートしていきます。太陽光発電をめぐるFITの制度変更の状況の中で、古川メガソーラープロジェクトのさらなる活性化にも貢献していきます。
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FREDERICTON, NB, Oct. 8, 2015 /CNW/ - Opportunities New Brunswick (NB), GE Canada and GE Ventures Licensing have announced a partnership to provide New Brunswick entrepreneurs access to GE intellectual property that will help them bring new technology, products and services to market.
Stephen Lund, president and CEO of Opportunities NB, and Ross Hornby, vice-president of government affairs and policy at GE Canada, made the announcement at the joint GE and Opportunities NB 2015 Small Business Day event held at Planet Hatch in Fredericton.
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- Helping to ensure American students are college- and career-ready, the GE Foundation supports high-impact initiatives that improve the equity and quality of K-12 public education in the U.S.
- Programs help to address the skills gap
Fairfield, CT - October 7, 2015 - The GE Foundation was named the winner of the 2015 Corporate Citizenship Awards, in the category of Best Commitment to Education Program, by The U.S.
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. - October 2, 2015 - GE [NYSE: GE] today announced it has completed dredging in New York’s Upper Hudson River. Since 2009, GE has removed the majority of PCBs from the Upper Hudson River in one of the largest and most successful environmental cleanup projects ever undertaken in the United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has called the project an historic achievement that protected the environment and human health. GE’s crews removed more than 300,000 pounds of PCBs from the river - more than twice as much as had been anticipated.