Cogeneration Project Near Beijing to Reduce Emissions While Producing Economic Benefits and Helping Reduce Sub-Urban Electricity Shortage
JENBACH, Austria--05 August 2008-- GE Energy's ecomaginationTM-certified Jenbacher gas engines will use biogas created from chicken manure to generate needed power and heat at a large chicken farm north of the China's capital city of Beijing. The plant is the first of its type in China and could pave the way for similar applications in the future.
Project Helps Reduce Regional Energy Shortage and Use of Fossil Fuels
JENBACH, Austria--31 July 2008-- Pakistan's first renewable energy project to use sugarcane-waste biogas created from the production of ethanol recently began supporting the national grid. The plant is powered by eight ofGE Energy's ecomaginationTM-certified Jenbacher biogas engines.
2007-08 Report, Investing & Delivering in Citizenship, Summarizes Key Global Economic Issues
FAIRFIELD, Conn.--24 July 2008-- GE today released its fourth annual Citizenship Report, entitled Investing and Delivering in Citizenship. The 2007-2008 report, which covers GE's worldwide operations for the 2007 fiscal year, reviews GE's citizenship from the perspective of four key themes -- energy and climate change, demographics, growth markets and financial markets.
STAMFORD, Conn.--09 July 2008-- With a goal of investing $6 billion in renewable energy by 2010, GE Energy Financial Services surpassed the $4 billion mark today by investing in New York State's three newest wind farms. The unit of GE (NYSE: GE) will invest a total of $100 million in the three wind farms, whose construction began last month.
Since 2004, GE has provided leadership development opportunities and financial assistance to more than 70 university students in the UK
LONDON, 4 July 2008 -- Today, at a ceremony in central London, fifteen more UK undergraduates from five universities will become GE Foundation Scholar Leaders, awarded in recognition of their academic excellence and future leadership potential.
