GE Reports

Millions of Americans go online to look for a new job. Now GE is using the same technology that forms the backbone of the Internet to open new U.S. manufacturing jobs.
That technology is a massive new data center, which opened at GE’s Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky, last year. The [...]

Logging into your iPhone and managing your home heater or washer over the Internet may still seem like a far-fetched idea, unless you live in Warner Robins, Georgia.
Ten households in this southern city, perhaps best known for the nearby Robins Air Force Base, will have their homes fitted with [...]

The trend emerging from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been connectivity in the age of big data. As gadgets are getting more mobile and powerful, they also generate and process more information than ever. This leaves companies and consumers alike grappling to make sense of it.
GE has [...]

The perils of climate change leave many governments in a bind. They need to provide their citizens with power, but business as usual will do little to keep the weather from veering into extremes. The answer is new, innovative technology, such as GE’s ecomagination-qualified integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant. [...]

GE Transportation was a great growth story last year. The unit, which manufactures high-tech locomotives, mining equipment and other heavy machinery announced more than 2,400 jobs in the U.S. in 2011. It will invest over $400 million to open new plants and upgrade facilities in Pennsylvania and Texas. It also [...]

The electric vehicle (EV) market has been stuck in low gear. One of the big opportunities where this can be changed is in the commercial vehicle sector. There are over 230 million commercial cars and light-duty trucks on U.S. roads—a huge potential source for widespread EV adoption. But large companies, [...]

The Association of American Railroads calls U.S. freight rails “the envy of the world.” This is no vain chest thumping. Just three decades ago, America’s railroads were on the brink of ruin. Rail operators were broke, could not properly maintain tracks and provide reliable service. Their prospects turned with the [...]