ATLANTA, GEORGIA (July 31, 2003) --- GE Power Systems announced today that it has signed two long-term service contracts with Exelon Corporation for 25 Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) at four power plants in Massachusetts and Texas.
Under the terms of the contract, GE Power Systems' KVB-Enertec team will provide comprehensive maintenance of all CEMS and Data Acquisition and Handling Systems (DAHS) hardware as well as provide 24-hour-a-day software support for the Exelon facilities.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2003--According to a recent back-to-school survey conducted by the National Retail Federation, the average consumer expects to spend $206.24 on clothing this year.
The GE Profile(TM) Harmony Clothes Care System, the first washer that communicates electronically to the dryer, is designed to help families protect their clothing investment by taking the guesswork out of doing the laundry.
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA (July 30, 2003) --- Australian telecommunications operator Telstra chose GE Network Solutions' Smallworld Network Inventory™ portfolio of products for its upgraded network planning and engineering system. In a multi-million dollar contract, Telstra will upgrade its incumbent Cable Plant Records (CPR) system to use the Physical Network Inventory product as a platform to plan, design, construct and manage its wireline network.
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FLORENCE, ITALY (July 28, 2003) --- GE Oil & Gas and Aker Kvaerner-Kvaerner Oilfield Products (KOP) have signed a new agreement for the continued development and commercialization of innovative, subsea compression technology designed to reduce costs of deepwater oil and gas field exploitation.
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FLORENCE, ITALY (July 24, 2003) --- GE Oil & Gas has shipped a 56-megawatt steam turbine-generator for use in a waste-to-energy (WTE) project located at the municipal waste incineration plant of Bilbao, Spain.
The WTE project consists of a combined-cycle system which includes the GE steam turbine and a GE LM6000PD gas turbine, plus an incinerator. Steam to power the steam turbine will be produced by recovering heat from the gas turbine exhaust, and by burning refuse. The waste plant incinerates half of the household garbage of the Bizkaia region of Spain.
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PLAINVILLE, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 23, 2003--GE Industrial Systems, a $6 billion unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today it has acquired Saferex Oy, which configures electronic security systems in Finland for security guard services, locksmiths, security contractors and wholesalers of electrical goods.
The Helinski, Finland-based company is privately held. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 21, 2003--Did you know that one in ten women have a husband or boyfriend that knows absolutely nothing about doing the laundry? According to a recent national survey commissioned by GE Harmony (NYSE:GE), its true, despite the fact that doing laundry is one of the oldest domestic tasks in existence.