Recent News: Green Effie Awards, Navy Contract, GE Money, GE Sensing & Inspections, GE Aviation, and New Water Heater

GE, HSBC, Wal-Mart To Get Green Effie Awards
INAUGURAL WINNERS OF THE GREEN Effie Award, which honors effective eco-marketing, were announced today. Winning campaigns for GE, HSBC and Wal-Mart will receive gold, silver and bronze awards in June...

Navy contract gives new life to old GE plant
The ceremonial groundbreaking for a testing facility for electric turbines got the full silver-spade treatment in Fitchburg last week — and with good reason. The $2.1 million facility brings the city another step toward healing the economic and psychological scars left by the closing of the General Electric steam turbine plant a decade ago...

GE Money buys AgroConsult Bohemia
The financial group GE Money, which comprises GE Money Bank, among others, bought 100 percent of consulting company AgroConsult Bohemia, which it believes will reinforce consulting services in the field of European Union and state budget subsidies, the bank said in a press release Wednesday...

GE Opens Non-Destructive Testing Display
Today, GE Sensing & Inspection Technologies opens its customer display area at GE Aviation’s Customer Technical Education Center (CTEC) in Cincinnati, Ohio. CTEC is GE Aviation's state-of-the art training facility, with a full-time staff of instructors who provide engine maintenance training for customer personnel...

GE's New Water Heater Could Kill 30 Coal Plants
Y'know what's dumb...until today, Energy Star didn't regulate water heaters at all. They're the most energy-hungry single appliance in the home, and are responsible for about 17% of residential energy use. But because of a lack of consensus on how they should be regulated, and resistance from industry, their efficiency went completely unregulated....