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Ford, GE, Pepsi Win Energy Star Awards

April 12, 2011April 12, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Ford, Lowe’s, J.C. Penney and KB Home are among the winners of the 2011 Energy Star Awards, announced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today. The four companies all won in the Sustained Excellence category, which recognizes companies that exhibit leadership in the Energy Star program year after year, while ... Read more »

GM Leads Pack as Clean Patents Jump by Record 170%

March 31, 2011April 1, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Clean energy patents hit a record high in 2010, as GM took the leadership position from Honda, according to a patent index published by law firm Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti P.C. The Clean Energy Patent Growth Index found that there were 1,181 cleantech patents granted in 2010, up over ... Read more »

GE Expands Efficiency Offerings with $3.2bn Converteam Acquisition

March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

GE’s energy division announced today that it will buy a roughly 90 percent, $3.2 billion stake in French electrification and automation company Converteam, expanding the industrial giant’s involvement in the electrical efficiency market. GE will buy the equity from a controlling shareholder group that includes management, Barclays Private Equity and ... Read more »

Ericsson, Cisco, GE Launch New Cities Foundation

March 29, 2011March 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Cisco, Ericsson and GE have helped to launch a foundation aimed at improving life and work in the 21st century city. The founders of the New Cities Foundation said it will respond to the rapid urbanization of the earth’s population by developing new models of partnership among high-level leaders in ... Read more »

Lighting roundup: eBay, Hazardous Metals, GE

February 15, 2011February 15, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Here’s a roundup of the latest news in energy-efficient lighting. Ebay has replaced nearly 19,000 lamps and 7,000 ballasts at its San Jose, Calif., campuses, in a move that it says will reduce lighting-related electricity consumption by 40 percent. The company said it only installed two lamps for every three ... Read more »

GM Rolling out GE Efficiency Program at 20 Plants

January 27, 2011January 27, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

A GE energy efficiency program with a less than six-month payback is being implemented at 20 General Motors plants, the two companies have announced. GM has adapted GE’s Proficy Cimplicity software to tie the use of lights to the schedule of conveyers. The manufacturer then discovered other aspects of consumption ... Read more »

China Promises $61.4bn Smart Grid Market

January 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

The value of China’s smart grid market is projected to rise from $22.3 billion to $61.4 billion over the next five years, providing a market unrivalled by any in the world, according to research firm Zpryme. The size of China’s smart grid market will provide an unmatched economy of scale, ... Read more »

GE Challenge to Focus on Home Energy Use

January 10, 2011January 10, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

GE has announced the latest phase of its $200 million low-carbon innovation program, with a call for proposals on home energy management. The new round of GE’s ecomagination Challenge, announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will invite ideas for technologies and business models to help reduce home ... Read more »

GE, VC Partners Invest $55M in New Smart-Grid Tech

November 19, 2010 by Gina Roos

As part of the $200 million “GE ecomagination Challenge,” GE and its venture capital partners has awarded $55 million to several leading power grid technology companies. This is the first of several rounds of innovation funding planned by GE and its venture capital partners to drive the development and deployment ... Read more »

GE to Buy 25,000 Electric Vehicles by 2015

November 12, 2010November 12, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE plans to buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015 for its own fleet and through its Capital Fleet Services business, which the company touts as the largest single electric-vehicle commitment to date. GE says it will convert at least half of its 30,000 global fleet and will partner with fleet customers ... Read more »

GE to Order ‘Tens of Thousands’ Electric Vehicles

October 29, 2010October 29, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE’s chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt said in a recent speech that the company will order “tens of thousands” of electric vehicles (EVs) in about a week, which he says will be the largest in history, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. No additional details were provided about the order. However, Bloomberg reports ... Read more »

Partnerships Aim to Accelerate EV, Smart Grid Development

September 27, 2010 by Gina Roos

While GE and Better Place have teamed up to accelerate the global deployment of electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, with one goal of converting corporate fleets to electric vehicles as a way to lower cost and carbon emissions, Hitachi and Panasonic’s partnership is aimed at creating smart communities. The collaboration between GE and Better ... Read more »

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