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sustainability

5 Ways Companies Can Weave Sustainability Into Their DNA

Paul Holdredge Manager Resources And Environmental Strategy Ecomagination
Ann Condon Ecomagination Director Of Resources And Environmental Strategies
August 28, 2017

Back in 2005, wind power, solar energy and electric vehicles were subscale technologies when GE launched Ecomagination, which strives to improve business and environmental performance, all while generating revenue. Today, these technologies have gone from expensive pilots to mainstream services, and they’re accelerating fast, write Ann Condon, GE’s Director of Resources and Environmental Strategies, and Paul Holdredge, Manager, Resources and Environmental Strategy.

 

 
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hackathon

Building The Bitcoin For Energy: This Woman Came Up With A Promising New Idea For Trading Clean Power

Maggie Sieger
Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2017
Talia Kohen exudes enough personal energy to light up a ballroom. But her goals are much grander. “I want electricity to be the factor that unites all of Europe, just like the euro,” she says.
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Renewables

Winds Of Change: Offshore Electricity Powers First American Homes

May 17, 2017
The small island sits off the coast of Rhode Island between the northeastern tip of New York’s Long Island and Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. There, like the archetypal New Englander, it cuts a hardy and stout profile, with chin out, to face the battering North Atlantic Ocean, the bruising wind and the weather it brings.
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Renewables

Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet

Tomas Kellner
April 20, 2017
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7 million inhabitants, fits on an island sliced off from the mainland by the waterway and its tributaries. Just west of the city, the river’s surface is so wide it could pass for a sea.
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Renewables

Catching More Wind: GE Acquires World’s Largest Turbine Blade Maker

Maggie Sieger
April 20, 2017
But AR is already making an impact.
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Energy

The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California Grab More Renewables

Tomas Kellner
April 17, 2017
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The record was a good omen for America’s most populous state, which is striving to use renewables for half of its electricity consumption by 2030.
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Renewables

This Idea Holds Water: A Rural Montana Town Is About To Make A Splash In Renewable Energy

Tomas Kellner
April 05, 2017
Born Mary Eager in 1926, the daughter of a physics professor blazed through her coursework, graduating in just three years at age 20 thanks to having taken college classes in high school and committing to a grueling year-round schedule. A strict family rule may also have helped. “Studying came first,” said Reynolds. “So no radio could be on if anyone was studying at home.” She was the second woman to graduate with a mechanical engineering degree at what was then Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University).
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Hydro

Hydropower Catches The Digital Wave

Richard Taylor International Hydropower Association Ceo
Debora Frodl GE
March 24, 2017

Digital solutions promise to improve economic and environmental outcomes, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Richard Taylor, CEO of the International Hydropower Association.

 

 
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Energy

Unstoppable: Why The Next Decade Belongs To Renewable Energy

Yves Rannou President And Ceo Hydro GE Renewable Energy
Debora Frodl GE
March 13, 2017

If last year is any indication, the next decade belongs to renewable energy. Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Yves Rannou, President and CEO for GE Renewable Energy, Hydro, share three reasons that propel the business case for renewable energy.

 

 

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Chasing Dreams: The Women Engineering Vietnam’s Future Part 3

October 26, 2016
Part 3: Phan Kim Nen, GE Oil and Gas
Although women make up a large percentage of Vietnam’s workforce (70% in the agricultural sector[1]) many females still face career barriers. Given GE’s commitment to developing local talent, and expanding opportunities in Vietnam, this series pays tribute to GE Vietnam’s female employees who have made their mark in variety of sectors. For part three of our Chasing Dreams series, we present the story of Phan Kim Nen, a design engineer working for GE’s Oil and Gas business.
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