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Vitamin Cottage Saves $193,000 Per Year with LED Lights

March 5, 2014August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage incorporated all-LED lighting in its distribution center and new grocery stores. The LED lighting is expected to reduce Natural Grocers’ energy usage by more than 1.7 million kWh across 40 locations and its distribution center, saving the grocer nearly $193,000 each year. The company installed ... Read more »

Adding Clean Energy to PJM Grid Would Slash Emissions, Study Finds

March 4, 2014March 4, 2014 by Kirsten Korosec

Raising renewable energy to 14 percent of the electricity supply operated by power grid manager PJM Interconnection would reduce CO2 emissions by 12 percent compared to 2011 levels, according to a study. Under a 30 percent renewable energy penetration scenario, in which more than 100,000 MW of renewable capacity is ... Read more »

GE Invests $1.4B in New Distributed Power Business

February 26, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

GE is spending $1.4 billion over four years to launch a new business – GE Distributed Power – that combines three product lines: Aeroderivative Gas Turbines, Jenbacher Gas Engines and Waukesha Gas Engines. GE says the new business will help meet the world’s growing demand for on-site power systems that ... Read more »

GE Gas Turbines Eliminate Ocean Water for Cooling at LADWP

February 11, 2014 by Linda Hardesty

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) plans to phase out the Scattergood Generating Station’s 460-MW Unit 3 conventional steam boiler, in operation since 1974, and replace the capacity with cleaner, technology from GE. For the Scattergood repowering project near El Segundo, LADWP chose the combination of GE’s ... Read more »

GE Chemical Dumping ‘Injured Natural Resources’

February 5, 2014February 4, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric did not mention environmental harm it caused by dumping chemicals into New York’s Hudson River, according to federal officials. In a Jan. 30 letter to the GE, the Federal Hudson River Natural Resource Trustees say they have “documented injuries to natural resources” including fish, waterfowl and surface and ... Read more »

GE Launches Downstream Technology Solutions Business

February 4, 2014February 3, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric Oil & Gas has launched its Downstream Technology Solutions (DTS) business to more efficiently supply equipment and services to the $10 billion refining, petrochemical, industrial and distributed gas segments. Headquartered in Houston, DTS offers multiple downstream technologies and services including steam turbines, blowers, distributed gas solutions, reciprocating compressors, ... Read more »

Trains Turn to Natural Gas to Cut Fuel Costs, Compete with Trucks

January 28, 2014January 28, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric’s locomotive division and other companies are testing natural gas equipment as rail companies look for ways to take advantage of natural gas production, which has halved the price of fuel, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The savings could be in the billions, the publication reports. Union Pacific, the ... Read more »

CoreSpace Boosts Energy Savings and Power Reliability

January 23, 2014 by William Opalka

Dedicated servers and cloud services provider CoreSpace is introducing a new service level agreement guarantee for power protection in its Dallas data center using a GE three-phase uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system. The center now employs GE’s SG Series. When CoreSpace acquired its Dallas data center it installed a 500-kilovolt UPS system ... Read more »

Lux Research Water Industry Opportunities

You Can Make Money in the Water Business, Lux Research Says

January 22, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The $600 billion water industry boasts a sizable number of profitable large companies, according to Lux Research, which says new entrants are bringing emerging technologies that will disrupt the industry and create new opportunities. A review of 150 companies across the value chain, representing 23 percent of the market, found ... Read more »

GE, Eli Lilly, Celgene Partner with NYC, Launch Biotech Fund

December 10, 2013December 10, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The New York City Economic Development Corporation has partnered with Celgene, GE Ventures and Eli Lilly to create a biotech fund called the Life Sciences Funding Initiative. The city will put in $50 million and says by leveraging at least that amount in matching funds, the partnership will deploy a ... Read more »

ViaWest Data Centers Tap GE Critical Power

December 10, 2013 by Leon Walker

Data center provider ViaWest has selected GE Critical Power’s electrical distribution systems to power several of its locations. ViaWest is deploying GE’s electrical distribution systems at its Lone Mountain, Tier IV design-certified data center in Las Vegas; the Cornell data center in Denver; the Synergy Park data center in Dallas and ... Read more »

Contract Wins: GE, Novozymes, Axion, IDF International

December 4, 2013December 4, 2013 by Leon Walker

Biotech company Novozymes will supply enzyme technology to the world’s first biomass-to-glycols bio-refinery to be constructed by M&G Chemicals in China. The bio-refinery will have capacity to process 1 million metric tons of biomass per year, about four times the capacity of the biomass conversion facility by Beta Renewables in Crescentino, Italy, the company ... Read more »

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