Energy Financial Services

As yesterday’s release of the “GE Global Innovation Barometer” underscored, there’s a growing global consensus that some of the world’s toughest problems — especially those in the energy sector — will require partnerships to solve them. Today, GE announced another major step in that direction with the formation of a [...]

Flagstaff, Arizona- based Southwest Wind Power is the world’s largest maker of small wind systems. Their turbines can be found next to farm houses; on utility poles and offshore oil rigs; and even in a model that deploys rapidly in a military hot zone.
GE, which is the country’s leading supplier [...]

A stint in jail provides ample time for a person to reflect. In Lake County, California, it’s the whole jail that’s getting in on the reflection. The jail and the county’s two wastewater treatment plants are part of a unique solar power array that can potentially save the county’s taxpayers [...]

Venture capital dollars have been in the spotlight this week with GE’s ecomagination Challenge opening the tap on its $200 million VC fund. But long before the Challenge launched, GE’s Energy Financial Services business has been an active player in the VC arena, from power management technologies, to solar power [...]

Although most people never see the inside of a data center, we’re all connected to them whether we realize it or not. The massive banks of computers inside these centers are the workhorses that manage the flow of everything from your Google searches to the movies you watch On Demand.

Europe will see a historic exchange of power this month when, for the first time ever, Turkey is connected to the European electric grid. That link-up, which uses GE smart grid technologies, is part of seismic energy changes underway in Turkey, ranging from an aggressive plan to generate 20 percent [...]

From the Western U.S., where construction has just started on a massive, half-billion dollar series of wind farms, to the East Coast, where Massachusetts is rolling out high-tech gear that allows power grids to “heal themselves” by isolating outages and rerouting power, it’s been a busy week for GE’s energy [...]