GE Reports Record $200 Billion Backlog, Largest in Company History
January 20, 2012
General Electric reported fourth quarter financial results this morning. One number that jumped out was the staggering size of the…
Tag Archives: Energy
Of Brawn and Brains: GE Helps the Huge U.S. Electrical Grid Add Smarts to Scale
January 4, 2012
The National Academy of Engineering named electrification as the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th century. Started by Thomas Edison…
Top Five Technology Challenges Tackled by GE in 2011
December 21, 2011
In 2011, GE scientists, makers and business leaders created products, provided services and launched research projects that took on a…
Power to the People: U.S.-Made GE Turbine Technology Will Help Keep the Lights On in Far East Russia
December 14, 2011
Russia’s largest island, Sakhalin, snuggles up to the motherland’s Pacific coastline just north of Japan. The island, about half the…
How Turning Pig Manure into Oil Fosters Sustainability in a Crowded World
December 12, 2011
It took nature tens of millions of years to turn dead plants and other organic matter into coal and petroleum.…
Planning for a Rainy Day: GE’s Innovative Flex Plant to Power National Grid for the First Time
December 9, 2011
Renewable energy projects such as solar and wind farms have been pumping increasingly more electricity into the grid. For example,…
