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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.

Earlier this summer, we featured the new 100-kilowatt-hour, solar-powered, electric vehicle-charging carport that GE installed in Plainville, Connecticut. While carports may conjure images of 1960s suburbia, this one is decidedly non-retro, with its ability to fully charge 13 EVs a day with renewable energy. Great idea, advanced technology and cool [...]

The state of Western Australia takes up a third of the Australian continent and is the second largest subnational entity in the world (it’s three times the size of Texas in area). WA gets a lot of sun, well over 3,000 hours annually. It doesn’t get a lot of rainfall. [...]

Ever wonder whether your roof would be a good spot for some solar panels? What about the roof of Madonna’s $30-odd million Manhattan townhouse? The Txchnologist, a GE-sponsored online magazine, decided to do a little digging.
Released last week, the New York City Solar Map, which calculates the available area [...]

The Ecomagination-inspired Tag Your Green project has brought together an online community of eco dreamers and doers, who are making their real-world neighborhoods greener and tagging the results. YouTube star and Tag Your Green ambassador Shaycarl just released the first episode of his TYG Road Trip. First stop? South by [...]

Renewable energy needs a game changer. While plenty of new innovation is hitting the markets, there’s still a giant chasm between where we are now and where we need to be in order to abandon fossil fuels. GE’s new FlexEfficiency 50 Combined Cycle Power Plant is a step toward the [...]

Part of creating and building the technology that will power a more sustainable future is taking a holistic approach: recognizing how different eco elements fit together to create a whole system that is greater than the sum of the individual parts.
Today in Plainville, Connecticut, GE unveiled a new solar-powered [...]