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Is Your Power Company Extreme-Ready?

August 20, 2014

Eight million homes and businesses without electricity after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, tens of thousands left in the cold by last winter’s polar vortex.

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Power generation increasingly resembles an extreme sport — is your utility company ready for the next round?

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Lorenzo Simonelli: Fostering a More Sustainable Africa

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
August 12, 2014
Following the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last week, all eyes are turned to Africa, one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. As economic reports predict acceleration in growth, the sustainability of this growth is becoming an increasingly pressing issue.
 
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Lorraine Bolsinger: Overcoming Africa’s Power Challenges…Together

Lorraine Bolsinger GE
August 11, 2014
Africa is home to 12 of the 20 fastest-growing economies; its strong manufacturing, services and technology sectors are fueling economies around the globe. Africa is achieving these successes without being able to make full use of all its resources because access to electricity is still lacking in many areas.
 
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Todd Moss and Beth Schwanke: Closing Africa’s Energy Poverty Gap

Todd Moss Center For Global Development
Beth Schwanke Center For Global Development
August 08, 2014
Two out of three people in Sub-Saharan Africa—that’s nearly 600 million people—live today without access to electricity. As incomes and economies grow in Africa, and they are both growing quickly, this will generate massive demand for power access. This is a huge opportunity for Africans to pull themselves out of poverty and a substantial business opportunity that the United States can’t afford to ignore. And right now is the moment to do something about it.
 
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America’s Tentative Embrace of Africa as Investment Partner

August 07, 2014
Africa is ascendant, but when will America recognize it?
 

Africa’s economic outlook as a whole presents one of the most promising growth stories of anywhere in the world, yet the U.S. remains under-invested in the continent relative to other regions. When you read a headline about Africa in the paper, it’s still more likely to talk about conflict or disease than opportunity.
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Shari Berenbach: Bringing Energy to Africa’s Rural Underserved

Shari Berenbach U S African Development Foundation
August 07, 2014
For many of us, it’s difficult to imagine life without access to electricity — and harder still to consider the many ways that energy transforms our daily lives.
 
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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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Listening and Learning for Success—What Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs Need

Mary Olushoga Awp Network
April 09, 2014
Women entrepreneurs in Nigeria face a host of cultural and institutional hurdles they must negotiate on their way to success. Despite these obstacles, women are thriving because they are learning from each other’s lessons and listening to voices of those who have gone before them.
Entrepreneurs need to be encouraged. It is not easy to start and sustain a business in places like Lagos; building a sustainable business in Nigeria in general is not easy. Entrepreneurs need to know how the system works so that they can survive this challenging and difficult terrain.
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Thirsty Energy

World Bank
March 18, 2014
The Energy-Water Challenge
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Electrifying the Globe: 2014 and Beyond

February 21, 2014
Editor’s Note: Following the launch of the International Energy Agency’s much-anticipated World Energy Outlook, GE’s Power Conversion Business wanted to take a closer look at the electricity landscape, seeking to foster insight and conversation around the realities that the marine, oil and gas, energy and general industry markets face.
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