Energy

The steel industry has had an image problem. According to recent data, steel makers generate some 40% of global CO2 emissions and represent a third of global energy demand. American steel manufacturers alone generate 1.8 tons of carbon dioxide per each ton of crude steel they make.

But engineers at [...]

In two years, GE has announced 14 new manufacturing plants or existing facility expansions in the United States, from a new locomotive manufacturing plant in Texas and an aircraft engine composites factory in Mississippi to refurbished appliance and lighting facilities in Kentucky, Alabama and Ohio, among others.

Capping a week in which GE announced a new highly-efficient gas turbine and $1 billion in North American turbine orders, an expansion of its presence in Germany and the launch of a cancer campaign to improve care for millions through its integrated technology portfolio and new partners, the company finalized [...]

It’s been a week of high-tech investments at GE, from the factory floor in Rochester, NY to the latest in cyber security in Glen Allen, Virginia to the future of electric flight in Dayton, Ohio. Over the next few years, the three sites together could create more than 400 new [...]

Last week, GE announced a major breakthrough in solar energy that paves the way to make it available and affordable on a large scale. The news — that GE has achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels — happened as solar is bursting into the spotlight across [...]

A key goal in solar energy is to make it available and affordable on a large scale. Last week, GE hit a major milestone on that path, having achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels. The research that led to the breakthrough built on decades of [...]

With its latest thin film solar innovation, GE is helping to turn the world’s oldest energy resource into its newest one. The breakthrough reported yesterday — that GE has achieved the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels — is part of a major push toward making [...]