I think the video below is my last video from this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week* that I have to share, which is good, because we’re more than halfway between this year’s Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week and next year’s! This video below is from a tour of GE’s first (and currently … [continued]
Global corporate giant GE has just opened its first “ecomagination Center,” and where else would it be than Masdar City? As we’ve written in the past, Masdar is aiming to become something like the Silicon Valley of cleantech. As GE & Masdar write in a press release, it “is one … [continued]
GE’s investment in its Ecomagination program, which was launched in 2005, has generated a total of over $130 billion of revenue since then. Last year, it invested almost $2 billion in the program and got back $25 billion in revenue. GE confirmed that the program even exceeded its goal of growing revenues … [continued]
Reposted from RenewEconomy (image added): Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of global industrial giant and leading energy supply company GE, had just a few words to say during a lightning visit to Australia this week to meet clients, sign deals and announce winners of the company’s first “ecomagination” low carbon challenge … [continued]
UK-based Carbon Trust and General Electric have launched a $5 million clean tech business incubator fund.
A top GE executive is calling the political battle between economy and environment “nonsense.”
In a video interview (featured below) at an international clean energy investment conferencelast week, Mark Vachon, vice president of GE’s successful Ecomagination program, hailed “environmental performance” as a key driver for business. […]
You probably remember reading something about GE’s ecomagination challenge. We’ve written about it a few times and it’s been advertised all over the internet. Well, wrapping up it’s second phase, GE is hosting a live conversation with leading innovators for 8 hours tomorrow on its website.
GE, which you would think sponsors us given the large number of articles we’ve written about it this week (it doesn’t), recently announced that it is buying one of the top contenders in its Ecomagination Challenge. FMC-Tech, a company based in Ireland that provides real-time power line monitoring to help with quicker commercialization of power grid technology, is the company about to get bought out by GE.
[social_buttons] Have a good idea for energy creation and distribution? GE and 4 prominent venture capital firms are offering up $200 million for winners of its Ecomagination Challenge in an effort to quicken development of a national smart grid. Perhaps you could be the winner?
