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GE’s Big Bet On Natural Gas

May 26, 2011 by Marc Gunther
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 General Electric Co. (GE) is betting big on natural gas. The $150-billion a year company, whose power plants generate about one-fourth of the world’s electricity, today announced a new natural-gas power plant that it says is more efficient and flexible than any other in the market. By phone from Paris, where the announcement was... [read more]

Wanted: 20,000 All-Electric Vehicles. Call Jeff @ GE.

November 1, 2010 by Osha Davidson
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GE's Jeff Immelt: "Clean Energy is a way to create jobs." When a company decides to upgrade and replace its vehicle fleet, that’s often a boon for a local dealer. When that company happens to be GE, and they want all-electric vehicles, it is a momentous occasion for an entire industry. GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt announced last Thursday... [read more]

Golly GE: a smart way to spur innovation

October 4, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Take the creativity of countless startups, the heft of a big corporation, $200 million in prize money, savvy venture capitalists, the power of digital media and the wisdom of crowds. Put them together and you have the ingredients of GE’s Ecomagination Challenge, a promising way to speed innovation towards a smart grid, clean energy and... [read more]

GE CEO Immelt boils over

September 29, 2010 by Dan Yurman
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He tells Sec. Chu U.S. energy policy is “stupid” You don’t get harsh words, almost a temper tantrum, from the CEO of a firm that is doing well. When the financials are deep in the black, what you get are corporate PR statements with all the excitement of a stack of oatmeal cookies. Current stockholders and future investors line up for... [read more]

GE and Washington: Too cozy?

January 31, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Since 2004, when I wrote a story for FORTUNE called Money and Morals at GE, I have been an admirer of General Electric and its CEO, Jeff Immelt. My admiration deepened when GE unveiled EcoMagination, its effort to solve important environmental problems. Immelt and GE also led the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, an alliance of big... [read more]

GE’s Immelt: I thought wind was a “hula hoop”

November 13, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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GE’s chief executive, Jeff Immelt, opened the Net Impact 2009 conference this morning at Cornell University and, as usual, he was thoughtful and provocative. He was bullish on GE, of course, but, after this tough year for the U.S. economy, he sounded more pessimistic than usual  about where the country and its economy are going.... [read more]

GE CEO Immelt: Government has to play a ‘key role’ in clean energy investments

September 25, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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This is a Wonk Room repost.  WR has been reporting from the Clinton Global Initiative conference this week. Earlier this year, the American Society for Civil Engineers roundly panned America’s disintegrating infrastructure, giving it an overall D grade and estimating that “it would take a $2.2 trillion investment … over the next... [read more]

U.S. Business Leaders Urge America to Get Serious about the Clean Energy Race

August 5, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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By Leigh Ewbank, originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteIn Monday's Washington Post, prominent U.S. business leaders John Doerr (from Kleiner Perkins, pictured left) and Jeff Immelt (CEO of GE) joined the growing chorus calling on the nation's leaders to prepare America for the clean-energy race. They warn that the U.S. is... [read more]

John Doerr and Jeff Immelt: To become the green tech leader, “We must put a price on carbon and a cap on carbon emissions.”

August 4, 2009 by Joseph Romm
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The Washington Post finally let through a good op-ed, “Falling Behind On Green Tech,” by John Doerr partner in VC Kleiner Perkins and Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE. As I’ve been saying for over a decade now, the U.S. has lost its lead to other countries because conservatives have blocked the policies needed to turn the U.S.... [read more]