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GE grant can inspire great change
In Louisville, Ky., a city most of us associate with the Kentucky Derby and the famous company that makes baseball bats, the school district has been making impressive strides in how it educates tens of thousands of public school students. A $25 million grant from the GE Foundation has had a lot to do with it...

GE going full-throttle
GE Aviation notched another record year in 2007, booking $25.5 billion worth of new orders throughout the world...

EPA Extends Public Comment Period for the Ecological Risk Assessment for GE Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for the recently-completed Ecological Risk Assessment for a major section of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut...

Eureka Forbes ties up with GE for clean water
The Shapoorji Pallonji group is betting big on the water business. Eureka Forbes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji group, is understood to have tied up with US infrastructure major GE Water for the expansion of its water filter business...

GE Unit Teams with SunPower on California Solar Projects
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, announced that it is partnering with SunPower Corp. -- a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems -- to provide financing for five California solar power projects...

GE to double renewable energy investment
General Electric will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...

GE to double its investments in renewable energy to $6bn by 2010
General Electric will today announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...

GE to double investments in renewable energies: FT
Diversified conglomerate General Electric Co. will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6 billion by 2010, the Financial Times reported on Sunday...

Vietnam seen as center for GE’s growth in SEA
The president of General Electric (GE) for South East Asia has underlined that the U.S. group places Vietnam as center for its growth in the region and can help develop human resources for global competition...