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Energy

GE And MIT Partner For More Energy, Less Carbon

Tomas Kellner
September 01, 2016
In 2006, MIT’s then-president Susan Hockfield asked university experts to name the biggest challenge for the next decades. “By far, the most common answer she got back was energy,” says Robert Armstrong, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), the school’s hub for energy research, education and outreach.
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Everything Is Illuminated: Smart LEDs Are Lighting The Way To "Intelligent" Manufacturing

Dorothy Pomerantz
June 25, 2016
In manufacturing, a minute saved is money earned. Which is why building complex machines like gas turbines can be frustrating.
One of the trickiest parts of the process involves assembling the turbine’s compressor and wheels. Workers at GE Power’s plant in Greenville, South Carolina, stack the components together one at a time. Depending on the build, they heat some pieces, fit them onto the assembly and then cool them at a uniform rate, creating a tight fit that binds the pieces together.
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ecomagination

When Big Companies Work Together They Can Solve The World's Toughest Problems

Debora Frodl GE
June 08, 2016

Scaling Disruptive Innovation

Transformative change takes time. When Thomas Edison founded GE 124 years ago, he couldn’t have fathomed the technological, economic or environmental realities of today. In the same spirit, we expect that our vision of the future will be different from anything we envisage today.

This vision needs to address a changing climate, economic pressures and increasing demands for natural resources. Society is looking to business for answers.
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Renewables

This Data Will Blow You Away: Renewables By Far The Largest New Power Source In The U.S.

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.
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Renewables

As Right As Rain: This Funny Weather App Will Light Up Your Day

February 08, 2016
Many clouds have a silver lining. Poncho, the irreverent weather app from Betaworks, just teamed up with GE to help you find it. “Our thesis is that people don't necessarily want to know what the weather is—they want to know whether they should wear boots or flip-flops outside, whether they should take a cab or walk,” says Betaworks’ James Cooper. “We combine that information with something funny. We're trying to make weather entertaining.”
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water-energy

Kevin Moss and Debora Frodl: Solving the Twin Crises of Energy and Water Scarcity

Kevin Moss Global Director Of The Business Center At The World Resources Institute
Debora Frodl GE
February 04, 2016

The water-energy nexus presents a growing challenge for many parts of the world. We need collaboration among the public and private sector to come up with creative solutions to resource scarcity.

 
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sustainability

Giulio Boccaletti: The Next Agriculture Revolution — More Crop Per Drop

Giulio Boccaletti Global Managing Director Water The Nature Conservancy
December 06, 2015

As farmers once again rise to the challenge of overcoming resource scarcity with the help of water-conservation technologies, other industries should take note. Part of a series exploring what can be achieved on the energy and the environmental front this decade.

 
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sustainability

Brandon Owens and Thibault Desclee: Beyond Policy — The Future of Renewable Energy

Brandon Owens GE
Thibault Desclee Global Strategic Marketing Leader At GE Renewable Energy
November 25, 2015

Renewables are key to a sustainable global power supply. Private-sector ingenuity and collaboration can help accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon energy future.

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sustainability

Debora Frodl: Solving Global Resource Challenges

Debora Frodl GE
November 20, 2015

Beyond smart policies, innovation and private-sector collaboration will help solve the world’s resource challenges.

 

The world’s resource challenges are very much top of my mind as we anticipate the start of the important 2015 United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP21), which will take place in Paris from November 30th through December 11th. At GE, we are deeply committed to helping to address the world’s most pressing resource challenges.
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Ecomagination Ten Years Later: Proving that Efficiency and Economics Go Hand-in-Hand

October 29, 2015
When GE launched Ecomagination in 2005, it redefined what it meant to be “green” for a business. Ecomagination was more than just another idea – it was a groundbreaking strategy the company used to build more efficient machines that produce cleaner energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean water and cut its use, and make money while doing it.
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