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Contributor Vic Abate is the vice president of GE’s renewables business.
As the vice-president of GE’s Renewables business, I am pleased to see the focus President Obama has on doubling renewable energy in the U.S. during the next three years. I believe this vision to be a great call to action for our nation’s policy makers [...]

Contributor, Bob Gilligan, is the vice president of transmission & distribution at GE Energy.
If Thomas Edison were to return today, he would be all-too familiar with our electrical infrastructure. Contrast this to the return of Alexander Graham Bell, who would need a college course covering topics ranging from the answering machine to the iPhone to get up to speed on advancements in telecom. While the grid of today is one of the past, the demand for reliable and clean energy is very much an issue of the present – and it’s escalating rapidly in ways that could potentially compromise our future. Global energy consumption is projected to triple by 2050. Power outages and disturbances cost the U.S. economy over $100 billion annually. And our grid contributes 40 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions, a staggering percentage that has much room for improvement.

The United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), which includes GE among its members – provided detailed recommendations to Congress on a new sustainable national climate protection program. USCAP is a group of businesses and leading environmental organizations that have come together to call on the federal government to quickly enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions.

Hello GE Reports. This is Karan Bhatia, the vice president and senior counsel of international law and policy at GE. I’d like to talk to you about strengthening the “rule of law,” a concept that means countries have legal and judicial systems that afford companies certainty in doing business there.

GE, along with many other industrial companies, recently sent a letter to the leaders of the European governments on the importance of financing for cleaner coal technology demonstration projects (like Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle). The letter is extremely well-written and thorough, but may be a wee bit technical for those of us who don’t work in the energy industry. Simply put, the letter says that these new technologies can be a big help as the European Union tries to deliver on its 2020 and 2050 emissions targets. Also interesting, the letter makes the point that EU leadership is needed for a larger global climate deal that would include action from developing countries.