GE Citizenship

• Building A Customer Focus

  GE works as a customer-focused organization, with relationship-building tools including Dreaming Sessions and the Net Promoter Score (NPS).

• Global Customer Summit

  Customers and regional leaders from all over the world attend GE’s Global Customer Summit for a week of learning about global business and networking.

Energy

• Global Energy Summit in Turkey

  GE Energy hosted a summit in Turkey to showcase new technologies that help countries address their urgent energy demands and environmental challenges.

• Ecomagination Upgrades for Endesa Italia Gas Turbines

  Endesa Italia turned to GE Energy’s latest gas turbine emissions control technology to meet the strictest emissions standards for power plants in Europe.

• Alberta Oil Producers Reduce Water & Carbon Footprints

  The Great Divide Oil Sands Partnership has selected GE’s technologies to dramatically reduce the amount of water used at its Algar Oil Sands Project in Alberta.

• Biogas Plant in Pakistan Powered by Jenbacher Gas Engines

  GE Energy’s Jenbacher biogas engines power Pakistan’s first renewable energy project using sugarcane-waste biogas to support the national energy grid.

• China’s First Chicken Manure Biogas Plant

  GE Energy’s Jenbacher gas engines generate power and heat from biogas created by chicken manure on a large farm north of the China’s capital city of Beijing.

• Working with Utilities to Reshape Consumer Energy Use

  GE introduced a suite of “smart” appliances that will be able to receive signals from their local utility and react based on their internal programming, saving energy.

• Supporting Energy Projects in Saudi Arabia

  GE Energy has signed contracts totaling more than $500 million to supply gas turbines and generators for power plant projects owned by Saudi Electricity Company.

• GE Power Distribution Management System For London

  GE Energy and EDF Energy Networks are installing a GE power distribution management software system to help manage EDF’s London electricity distribution network.

Water

• Pilgrim’s Pride Earns Ecomagination Leadership Award

  Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation received an ecomagination leadership award for achieving reductions in GHG emissions, waste solids and water usage.

• Newmont Mining Saves Over 75 MM Gallons of Water

  GE honored Newmont Mining Corporation with a 2008 ecomagination Leadership Award for reducing its annual water use by over 75 million gallons.

• The World’s Largest Independent Water & Power Plant

  GE Energy received an Award for Sustainability for supplying advanced technology solutions to the world’s largest independent water and power plant.

• Advanced Wastewater Treatment for China’s Taihu Lake

  GE’s advanced wastewater treatment technologies to help restore water quality in Taihu Lake, the main water source for more than 30 million people in China.

• GE & ConocoPhillips Partner on Water Sustainability Center

  GE Water & Process Technologies and ConocoPhillips announced an equal co-venture in ConocoPhillips’ Water Sustainability Center in Qatar.

• Partnership with Alberta Water Research Institute

  GE and the Alberta Water Research Institute have teamed up to share knowledge and test innovative solutions to better manage Alberta’s water resources.

• GE Water & Ecomagination: An Employee Perspective

  An account executive at GE Water & Process Technologies is driving ecomagination through the sale of reusable fat, oil and grease from a Cargill plant in Colorado.

• A Clean Water Joint Venture in India

  GE and Eureka Forbes announced the formation of Infinite Water Solutions created to bring safe, reliable and affordable water solutions to the Indian residential market.

• Africa’s Largest Seawater Desalination Plant

  GE is helping to ease the persistent shortage of potable water in Algiers, with the official opening of the U.S. $250 million Hamma Seawater Desalination Plant.

• Pakistan’s National Clean Water Initiative

  A visionary government program and GE ultrafiltration systems will provide clean drinking water throughout Pakistan to improve the lives of over one million people.

• Leaving An Olympic Legacy

  GE announced Beijing Olympic legacy gifts of two advanced water treatment systems that will provide clean drinking water for more than 40,000 Chinese residents.

Investment

• GE & Mubadala Development Company

  GE and Mubadala Development Company announced a global partnership encompassing commercial finance, clean energy R&D, aviation, industry and corporate learning.

• GE Plugs into Electric Car Investments

  GE has invested more than $24 million in an electric carmaker and battery supplier as part of an effort to push hybrid transportation toward the mainstream.

• Korea’s Songdo International Business District

  GE and New Songdo International City Development announced the development of ‘green’ homes, commercial and office buildings in the Songdo International Business District.