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Teaming Up: GE Healthcare And Ford Partner To Quickly Manufacture Ventilators For COVID-19 Patients
On Tuesday, GE Healthcare and Ford Motor Company announced plans to work together to scale up the production of ventilators — a move aimed to arm clinicians with vital medical equipment to treat patients with COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus. Equipped with the essential functions required to treat COVID-19, the new system will be built specifically to address the urgent needs of the pandemic.
Largest wind turbines in Asia to power Vietnam
With a rotor diameter of 158 metres, GE's Cypress platform wind turbines will be the largest in Asia
GE’s Cypress platform wind turbines used in the second phase of the Mui Ne wind farm invested by The Blue Circle and AC Energy will be the largest rotor diameter for an onshore project in Asia (158 metres) and will be the first to transport blades in two pieces before assembly on site.
This Is The Way We Live: A Team Of GE Workers Is Helping Italian Medics Keep Hospitals Running
Like most Italians, Antonio Spera has spent the past three weeks at home in Milan with his family in their apartment. But from his makeshift bedroom office, he has been operating on the frontlines in Italy’s battle against COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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GE Steps Up Production To Help Fight COVID-19
GE Healthcare, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of medical technology and equipment, is adding production lines, hiring workers and expanding output to help arm hospitals and medical professionals with the equipment they need to diagnose and care for patients suffering from COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
Transformation: Change in the Energy Ecosystem (Part 1)
The global energy ecosystem is changing. That is an ecosystem where collectively the world spends over US$6 trillion annually. That amounts to roughly 6% of global GDP.
To all female employees at GE Vietnam together with all women around the world, GE wishes you all a joyful and dazzling Women’s Day.
Every woman around us can tell an inspirational story.
Big Deal: The Air Force’s Largest Transport Craft, Powered By GE Engines, Taxis Into The Spotlight
There’s a reason the C-5M Super Galaxy plane looks like a whale with wings: The latest version of a military transport jet first developed 50 years ago by Lockheed, this behemoth can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours on a single tank of jet fuel. In fact, it’s the largest transport aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet.
Full Steam Ahead: This Biomass-Burning Plant Will Inch Japan Closer To Its Renewables Goals
As a modern-day wonder of reinvention, Japan’s power sector rivals David Bowie, Madonna and Prince. In the decade prior to 2011, fossil fuels and nuclear power dominated the country’s grid, generating close to 90% of the island nation’s electricity. But following the devastating tsunami in 2011, Japanese authorities shut down the country’s 11 nuclear reactors (which represented about 30% of Japanese electricity at the time) and boosted imports of liquified natural gas (LNG), fuel oil and coal to burn in the country’s power plants.
A new milestone of GE’s HA gas turbine
Being the largest and most efficient gas turbine in the world, GE’s HA gas turbine has just achieved a new milestone and continues to be the fastest growing fleet of advanced turbine in the world.
Let’s discover some cool facts about this amazing turbine!
How Asia Can Get Its Energy Transition Right
When I arrived in Singapore to lead GE Steam Power’s Asia Region, I was aware of some of the well-trodden discussions on the challenges that this region faces: “Asia will continue to lag behind Europe and the US in embracing newer forms of energy, especially clean energy”; “policy bottlenecks will make energy transition painfully slow and dependence on oil and gas inevitable.”