Jenbacher

The clean energy discussion tends to focus on wind turbines and solar power, rather than electricity unlocked from gas produced by waste dump deposits. Enter GE’s green Jenbacher engines, which are to landfill gas what ladybugs are to aphids. The massive machines gobble up and burn the smelly substances found [...]

Turkey manure isn’t the only pile of untapped energy gold.
In Santiago, Chile, the local water treatment plant just announced that GE’s ecomagination Jenbacher engines will soon be taking the methane-rich biogas created by the digestion of sewage sludge and converting it to electricity. Meanwhile, in the Philippines, the first landfill [...]

At GE, Thanksgiving Day leftovers are always top of mind — but depending on which tech center you call home, the thoughts can be radically different. While the folks in GE’s Appliance business understandably focus on the latest refrigerator gadgets to handle post-feast duties, the Energy team gets electrified before [...]

See some of GE’s waste-to-energy technologies — from the nuclear reactor that burns nuclear waste to the hybrid locomotive that captures and stores braking energy for later use.

When it comes to turning waste into energy, GE’s Jenbacher engines have long been doing the dirty work. Whether it’s generating electricity from landfill gases or the methane produced from mountains of manure, the ecomagination technology has become synonymous with an environmentally-friendly, efficient, and cost-effective way to generate energy from [...]

GE just expanded its waste-to-energy capabilities with the acquisition of substantially all of the innovative clean-technology made by Florida-based Calnetix Power Solutions. The move allows GE’s Jenbacher gas engine business — which makes ecomagination technologies that convert landfill and other biogases into electricity — to enter the $1 billion [...]

When GE announced the creation of its Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center outside of Detroit, Michigan last year — expected to attract more than 1,300 scientists and engineers focused on information technology, clean energy and aviation R&D — it was a boost to the state’s hard-hit economy. But thanks [...]