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.
Nashville, Tenn. (May 19, 2009) -- GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company, announced today that it has launched the Connection line of Positive Train Control (PTC) compliant products for rail networks operating in the United States.
With the signing of the Rail Safety Improvement Act by President George W. Bush in October 2008, the railroad industry will need to be PTC-compliant throughout the United States by 2015. According to the Act, there are four events that railroads must prevent with a PTC system:
Analog to digital unit enables development of solutions that are faster, more compact, more cost-effective
* 400MHz bandwidth allows wider instantaneous bandwidth, covers greater number of channels
* 14-bit resolution delivers increased sensitivity
* Onboard Xilinx® Virtex™-5 SX95T FPGA provides powerful data processing engine
* PMC form factor allows flexibility of use with CompactPCI or VME
Agreement with Larsen & Toubro Strengthens GEH's Local Supplier Network for Future, Multi-Unit Reactor Project to Help Meet Energy and Climate Goals
WILMINGTON, N.C.--19 May 2009-- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) today announced it has signed a nuclear power plant development agreement with India's top engineering and construction company, Larsen & Toubro Ltd. (L&T).
通用电气（NYSE: GE）旗下GE运输系统集团宣布由其中国合作伙伴中国南车戚墅堰机车有限公司在中国本地组装的首批国内最大功率内燃机车-和谐N5型干线机车于5月7日收到铁道部最终验收。
2009年5月14日, 中国常州，宾夕法尼亚州伊利--通用电气（NYSE: GE）旗下GE运输系统集团宣布由其中国合作伙伴中国南车戚墅堰机车有限公司在中国本地组装的首批国内最大功率内燃机车-和谐N5型干线机车于5月7日收到铁道部最终验收。
此次收到最终验收的和谐N5型干线机车共四台机车, 车号分别为"HXn50009, 50014, 50015, 50017", 已正式从常州戚墅堰出厂并抵达齐齐哈尔, 于5月12日正式承担在齐齐哈尔到满洲里铁路线（受中国东北的哈尔滨铁路局管辖）上托运货物的任务。
和谐N5型干线机车最大输出功率为 6,250 马力，可拖动相当于 240 架波音 747"空中巨无霸"飞机的重量, 该机车作为GE公司运输系统集团Evolution®系列，是当今技术最先进，高效节能，载重量最大的内燃电力机车。
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Real-time asset data is viewed as the most critical information in effectively managing fleet operations, according to recent findings from a GE Capital Fleet Services' survey. More than half (56%) of those polled said the ability to track metrics, such as miles driven and fuel consumption, are key to their operations.
In addition, productivity metrics, which include tracking travel time and the number of jobs or deliveries per day, are seen as helpful for managing fleets by 26 percent of the respondents.
