KENT, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Naverus, a part of GE Aviation Systems, announced today that they have been granted an Instrument Flight Procedure Service Certificate by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand. With this certificate, Naverus is authorized to design, validate, certify and maintain RNP (Required Navigation Performance) procedures in New Zealand. The certificate also permits Naverus to publish related aeronautical data.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Aviation Systems is a key supplier on the 787 Dreamliner providing aircraft systems from take-off to touch-down, the common core system and the landing gear system, on today's historic first flight.
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Caithness Energy's Oregon Wind Farm to Use GE's Advanced 2.5xl Machines
NEW YORK--Thursday, December 10, 2009-- GE (NYSE:GE) announced today it has received a $1.4 billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy to supply wind turbines and provide services for an 845-megawatt (MW) wind farm project to be located in Oregon. The wind farm, called Shepherds Flat, has received the majority of the necessary government permits to operate and is ready to be built. When completed it will be larger than any wind farm currently in operation around the globe.
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Water Index Will Offer Most Comprehensive Measure of Corporate Risks and Opportunities
TREVOSE, Pa.--Monday, December 07, 2009-- The World Resources Institute (WRI), in partnership with General Electric (NYSE: GE) and Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS), has launched an initiative to measure water-related risks facing companies and their investors. The initiative will develop a Water Index as a standardized approach to identify and mitigate water-related corporate risk.
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Initiative Supports India's Plans to Expand Electricity Supply with Low-Carbon Nuclear Energy
WILMINGTON, N.C.--Monday, December 07, 2009-- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy is helping lead this week's 50-member, U.S. nuclear industry delegation to India to support the expansion of safe, low-carbon nuclear energy to increase electricity supplies in one of the world's fastest-growing economies.