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GE Energy Treasure Hunt Yields $2.1M Energy Savings at NY Hospital

July 30, 2010July 30, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE is collaborating with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to bring the company’s internal Treasure Hunt program, aimed at reducing energy waste, to cities, universities, businesses, and other organizations. The program has helped GE reduce its own energy use by making improvements to all sources of energy waste including electricity, ... Read more »

PPL Electric Launches Smart Grid Project in PA

July 23, 2010July 24, 2010 by Gina Roos

PPL Electric Utilities has launched a smart grid project in Pennsylvania that will enable the utility to add renewable energy, improve its reliability, and give customers the ability to control its power use. PPL Electric is using GE’s distribution management system, which includes network management software that will allow the ... Read more »

GE Citizenship Report: GHG Intensity Falls 39%

July 21, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE has reduced its greenhouse (GHG) emissions by 22 percent and energy use by 16 percent compared to 2004 levels, according to the company’s sixth annual Citizenship Report (PDF). GE also reduced its GHG emissions and energy intensity by 39 percent and 34 percent, respectively, compared to 2004 levels. Other ... Read more »

GE, Partners Launch $200M Smart Grid Innovation Challenge

July 14, 2010July 14, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE and partner companies have launched a $200 million open innovation challenge that seeks new ideas from technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to create a smarter, cleaner, and more efficient electric grid. The “GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid,” also aims to accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. The ... Read more »

GE Loses Legal Battle with EPA over Hudson River Clean-Up

July 2, 2010October 18, 2016 by Gina Roos

GE has lost a legal battle with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit its Superfund liabilities related to the clean-up of pollution in the Hudson River, reports Business Green. GE is currently liable for clean-up operations at 52 Superfund sites, according to the agency. GE contested a provision ... Read more »

Roundup – GE, Prime Time Shuttle, Kenworth

June 25, 2010April 23, 2013 by Paul Nastu

Twenty Chicago Restaurants Are “Guaranteed Green” Time Out Chicago GeoSpring Hybrid Water Heater from GE Earns Another First BusinessWire Green Sector Fights to Keep Pollution Law SF Examiner Wind Project Off Rockaway Could Help Power New York’s Future Gotham Gazette Smart Grid Technology Can Address Climate Change SF Gate PRIME ... Read more »

GE: Ecomagination Revenues Reach $18 Billion in 2009

June 24, 2010June 26, 2010 by Paul Nastu

General Electric announced that revenues from its Ecomagination products reached $18 billion last year from the sale of more than 90 products, up 6 percent from $17 billion in revenue from more than 80 products in 2008. GE also announced a target to grow revenues for the product line at ... Read more »

Advanced Wafer Fab to Install GE’s Water Purification System

June 15, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE has inked a contract to design and install an ultra-pure water system at GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ new semiconductor manufacturing facility currently under construction at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga County, N.Y. The new $4.6-billion “Fab 8” computer chip factory is expected to be the largest and most advanced semiconductor ... Read more »

Cow Manure Project to Produce 38,000 mWh of Power Annually

May 6, 2010 by Gina Roos

Manure from 250,000 cows at a dairy farm in northeast China will fuel the world’s largest cow manure-fed biogas power project, planned to open in September, reports the New York Times. The Huishan Farm in Shenyang will generate 38,000 mWh of power annually, which will be sold to the state grid ... Read more »

Google, GE Share Five Roadblocks to Energy Savings

April 21, 2010April 21, 2010 by Gina Roos

A panel discussion at a recent Fortune Brainstorm Green session resulted in a list of five key roadblocks to energy efficiency, reports Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Panelists included Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and Gretchen Hancock, project manager for corporate environmental programs at GE. The number one barrier is ... Read more »

AT&T, GE, Google, Intel: National Smart Grid Integration Could Save $46B in Energy

April 6, 2010 by Paul Nastu

About 45 companies and organizations have united in an effort to push for greater national integration of the smart grid, especially as it pertains to business and consumer energy monitoring, pointing to a potential $46 billion in nationwide energy savings. In an open letter to the president, the Climate Group ... Read more »

With Filtration Technology, CONSOL Reuses Water in Mine

March 8, 2010 by Gina Roos

GE is installing a new water treatment system in one of the nation’s largest underground coal mines that will significantly lower freshwater demand due to water reuse. The new system, claimed as the first to be used in a North American mine, will be installed at CONSOL Energy’s Buchanan No. ... Read more »

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