SALZBERGEN, GERMANY (October 31, 2003) -- GE Wind Energy, a unit of GE Power Systems, has supplied four 1.5-megawatt wind turbines for Wind Farm Gembloux - Sombreffe in Belgium. The new six-megawatt wind project, located in the Gembloux region near Namur, Belgium, entered operation this week and is providing power for the Belgian grid.
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FLORENCE, ITALY (October 30, 2003) -- GE Oil & Gas, a unit of GE Power Systems, has been awarded a contract of approximately US$90 million to supply gas turbine-driven compressors for the Tangguh LNG Project in Indonesia.
The equipment will be used in the first compressor train for the new LNG facility, which will be constructed in Bintuni Bay Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia.
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FEATURE/GE Line of Wireless Digital Weather Products Make Great Gifts This Holiday Season CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2003--Looking for a great gift idea? Thanks to GE's Home Electric Products, Inc. and its latest line of Wireless Digital Weather Products, consumers can get timely weather readings when and where they want. Now there's no need to stay glued to television weather channels to get accurate, in-depth weather including temperatures and humidity readings, forecast, lunar cycles and trend graphs. GE makes gathering this information quick and convenient.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (October 28, 2003) -- The Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Plant, a 108-megawatt proposal slated for development off the east coast of England, last week became one of four new offshore wind projects to attain government consent. The projects were approved under the Transport and Works Act of 1992 as part of the U.K.'s ongoing program to significantly increase its supply of wind-generated electricity over the next several years.
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BELFORT, FRANCE (October 28, 2003) -- Centre d'Ingenierie Technique de Paris, a unit of France's state-owned electricity company Electricité de France, has selected GE Power Systems to provide a gas turbine-generator for a new power plant at Jarry, Guadeloupe in the French Caribbean.
The Jarry Sud project is being built to increase Guadeloupe's power generation capabilities. Guadeloupe is a French-governed cluster of islands located in the eastern Caribbean Sea, southeast of Puerto Rico.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA (October 27, 2003) -- GE Hydro has received a contract from Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) to rewind one of two generators at the Middle Fork Powerhouse, a hydro station on the Middle Fork American River in Placer County, California.
GE is supplying new windings for unit 2 at the Middle Fork site, a Toshiba 13.8 kV, 68 MVA hydro generator. GE Hydro rewound unit 1 in 1998. Under a separate contract signed last year, GE Hydro also is replacing the runners for the two Pelton turbines at the powerhouse.
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WAUKESHA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2003-- New Survey From GE Medical Systems' The Patient Channel Finds Hospital Staffs Often Don't Spend Enough Time Educating Patients And Loved Ones About Conditions, Treatments
GE Medical Systems, a unit of the General Electric Corporation (NYSE:GE) today announced the startling results of a survey on patient education, which shows that 43% of Americans felt that they didn't receive enough information regarding their own or a loved one's condition during their last hospital stay(1).