Erie, Pennsylvania, USA and Cairo, Egypt (July 13, 2009) -- GE Transportation and the Egyptian National Railways (ENR) announced today that the 80th and final Evolution Series locomotive has been commissioned and was officially released to ENR at the end of June. The commissioning process prepares locomotives to be released for revenue service.
Premiär för GE:s mest avancerade 2.5xl vindkraftverk i Norden, en kraftfull satsning på framtidens vindkraft
STOCKHOLM, SVERIGE -- den 2 juli 2009 -- GE Energy och det svenska vindkraftbolaget Arise Windpower AB tillkännagav idag den nordiska premiären för GE:s mest avancerade ecomaginationcertifierade vindkraftteknik med nya projekt i Sverige, det land som har de högsta målsättningarna i fråga om förnybara energikällor i EU. Projektet innebär att GE:s globala expansion av vindkraftverksplattformen 2.5xl stärks ytterligare.
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Project Provides Bay Area with Enough Renewable Power to Support 7,500 to 10,000 U.S. Homes
HALF MOON BAY, Calif.--01 July 2009-- One of California's most powerful landfill gas-to-energy projects to open in the last five years has started supplying renewable electricity to the San Francisco Bay region as the state continues implementing new anti-greenhouse gas initiatives.
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Third-Generation Technology Would Increase Production of Enriched Fuel for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
WILMINGTON, N.C.--30 June 2009-- Global Laser Enrichment (GLE), a business venture of GE, Hitachi Ltd. and Cameco, today announced a landmark in the deployment of its proposed, next-generation enrichment facility designed to increase the United States' supply of enriched uranium to fuel its nuclear power plants.
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GE announces first UK commitment to healthymagination business strategy
London 29 June 2009 -- GE, a worldwide partner of the Olympic Games, has today announced plans to donate £4.8 million ($8 million) worth of medical equipment, including foetal monitors, incubators and MR scanner, to Homerton University Hospital in Hackney, East London.
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HOUSTON--25 June 2009-- GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas advanced technology equipment and services, has been awarded a contract worth more than $70 million by StatoilHydro to upgrade a suite of subsea control systems for StatoilHydro's Tordis Vigdis Controls Modification (TVCM) project. The solution will incorporate GE's award-winning next-generation subsea electronics module---the VetcoGray SemStar5.
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Second Contract Secured by GE under a Frame Agreement Signed in December 2008
RIO DE JANEIRO--24 June 2009-- GE Oil & Gas, a world leading company in oil and gas advanced technology equipment and services, today announced that it has been awarded a contract of more than $11 million to supply four VetcoGray subsea wellhead systems and running tool rentals to OGX Petroleo e Gas Ltda., the largest independent oil company in Brazil.
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Technology to Help Meet Increasing Efficiency and Performance Requirements
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--23 June 2009-- GE Energy and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) have signed final agreements to co-develop a "next generation" steam turbine for use in gas turbine combined-cycle power plants. The co-development effort will focus on the design of a new, advanced steam turbine, leaving each of the parties to separately manufacture and sell the co-developed steam turbine in support of its natural gas-fired, combined-cycle power generation products.
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Second GE Water Plant in Region Furthers Commitment to Provide Critical Water Solutions
DAMMAM, SAUDI ARABIA---June 23, 2009---As Saudi Arabia is facing unprecedented demand for reliable sources of water, GE Energy is building on its growing commitment to provide critical water solutions to the Kingdom with the opening this week of a near $10 million GE Saudi Water & Process Technology Center.