AMSTERDAM— GE’s Distributed Power business (NYSE: GE) today announced that Prominent Growers Association, a leading commercial tomato greenhouse growers collective in the Netherlands, will serve as a pilot customer to showcase how GE’s next-generation, myPlant* 2.0, an asset performance management solution, can increase the performance and efficiency of on-site cogeneration plants. The new software is […]
BILBAO, SPAIN — GE’s Digital Energy business (NYSE: GE) today announced a milestone deal with Terna Rete Italia, Italy’s transmission system operator, to help it deliver more reliable power to businesses and residences across the country and to more efficiently integrating renewable energy. With 63,500 kilometers of high-voltage power lines, Terna was looking for a […]
The world currently consumes 20 trillion kWh of energy annually. Enough energy to power a single family home for 1.8 billion years or supply energy to a nuclear power plant for 2,300 years (or launch the Falcon 9 rocket seventeen million times). Of all the fossil fuel consumed in the United States, one third is […]
NAPLES, Fla., – Hertz Equipment Rental Corporation (HERC) (hertzequip.com), a subsidiary of The Hertz Corporation (NYSE: HTZ), has launched “Equipment Assurance,” its equipment extended service plan program, in the U.S. in partnership with Warrantech, a subsidiary of AmTrust Financial Services, Inc. The Hertz Corporation. “At Hertz Equipment Sales, our equipment is purchased from some of […]
PEORIA, Ill. – To help customers around the world better understand the health of their equipment and optimize machine availability, Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) today announced it has entered into a technology and predictive analytics agreement with Uptake, provider of a dynamic analytics and insight platform for a wide array of industries, based in Chicago, […]
DETROIT – General Motors for the first time is procuring wind to power its manufacturing operations, enabling one of its Mexico facilities’ electricity needs to be run mostly on renewable energy. This addition of 34 megawatts of wind power allows GM to achieve its corporate goal of renewable energy use four years early. Construction of […]
Siemens has handed over the first North Sea grid connection, BorWin2, to its customer TenneT. The German-Dutch transmission grid operator has accepted the project following successful completion of test runs by Siemens. The grid connection is therefore now in commercial operation. The offshore platform of the BorWin2 grid connection is located around 100 kilometers off […]
DALLAS, Feb. 4, 2015 – AT&T* and GE are working together to create the next generation of smart energy solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things, helping to improve the way the energy industry works. The companies are jointly working on proof of concepts at the AT&T IoT Foundry in Plano, Texas. “Our innovations are […]
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA— —GE (NYSE: GE) has signed a cooperative research agreement with King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) to undertake cutting-edge research on enhancing the fuel flexibility of GE’s advanced gas turbines. The collaborative research, led by Saudi-based international professionals and students from KAUST along with GE’s global team, will focus on […]
DUBA, SAUDI ARABIA — Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) has selected its long-time partner GE (NYSE:GE) for a project that marks Saudi Arabia’s first integration of a solar field with a combined-cycle plant and the first introduction of condensate as a gas turbine fuel. The landmark project, the ‘Green Duba’ Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Plant, will […]