Tucked away in a brick lab building of this leafy technology research campus, veteran GE lighting engineer and physicist Gary Allen reviews a chart of global greenhouse gas emissions that points in one direction—up. But, Allen says, there’s a simple step we can take to curtail these emissions and change course; screw in a more efficient light bulb. “The number one thing we can do to cut greenhouse gas emissions is to change our light bulbs….it’s the strongest lever we have to get CO2 emissions out of the atmosphere. So if you are going to spend money on anything, spend it on energy efficient lighting.”
November 30, 2011
The GE WattStation Wall Mount EV charging stations can now be used at no cost to travelers who use the airport’s valet parking services. By managing the GE EV charging stations through its valet service, the Indianapolis Airport Authority (IAA) and Parking Solutions for Airports and Global Parking System Inc. can rotate the charging of parked EVs, ensuring the service is available to any number of electric vehicles.
October 29, 2011
A week after announcing it would build a $300 million solar manufacturing plant in Colorado instead of New York, General Electric Co. dedicated a new $400,000 wind turbine training lab at Hudson Valley Community College’s Tec-Smart facility in Malta. And although there is great promise in solar energy, participants in a panel discussion on renewable energy held before the GE Wind Technology Lab was unveiled said the job market in the wind industry is as strong as ever — and growing.
October 15, 2011
In two years, GE has announced 15 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. GE’s recent breakthrough in solar energy technology—earlier this year achieving the highest-ever reported efficiency for CdTe thin film solar panels—will be brought to market at a new manufacturing plant to be built in Aurora, Colorado, the company announced last night at an event with Governor John Hickenlooper. When completed, the expansion will create the country’s largest U.S. solar panel manufacturing plant, 355 advanced manufacturing jobs at the new plant in Colorado and approximately 100 additional jobs in New York, at GE’s renewable energy headquarters in Schenectady and the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna.
October 7, 2011
Niagara Falls, New York celebrated 300 new construction jobs and an additional 100 manufacturing jobs at the groundbreaking yesterday for a new, recycled-containerboard mill that was financed in part by GE Capital. The $430 million Greenpac Mill is set to open in the summer of 2013 and is being built and operated by Norampac, a division of Canadian company Cascades, Inc. and other investors. It will manufacture approximately 540,000 short tons of lightweight linerboard a year in Niagara Falls, all of it made with recycled fibers. To help fund the development, construction and operation of Greenpac, GE Capital led the financing of $228.9 million in project finance credit facilities.
