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Vestas and GE neck and neck at top of wind industry

A picture of a wind turbine against a blue sky

Bloomberg New Energy Finance cannot separate sector heavyweights during 2012, as a record 48GW of capacity was installed

18 Apr 2013

Report: Vestas blown off wind market top spot by GE

A Vestas logo in front of a wind turbine

Vestas may have lost its 12 year hold on first position, although separate industry report disputes this

27 Mar 2013

Report: Europe losing its edge in clean tech market

RWE wind turbine nacelle

Climate Institute says Asia has overtaken Europe’s lead in competing for green investments

26 Mar 2013

GE sails past Vestas thanks to US wind rush

Industry report also shows both US and China installed around 13GW of new wind energy capacity last year

12 Feb 2013

Sainsbury’s slashes lighting costs with 'world-first' LED rollout

Retailer becomes the first supermarket to deploy GE’s new LED lighting system, promising energy savings of 59 per cent

25 Jan 2013

GE and Citi join Californian solar gold rush

As Warren Buffett bets $2bn on US solar farms, a group of high-profile investors complete similar deal to acquire stake in 143MW Californian project

04 Jan 2013

GE places mega-order for Ford plug-in hybrid

General Electric purchases 2,000 C-Max Energi hybrids as part of efforts to green engineering giant's fleet

21 Nov 2012

Renewables and gas firms unite to build low carbon future

New Energy Partnership will be launched today by GE, Dong Energy, Shell, Alpine Energie, and First Solar

31 Oct 2012

Australia flicks switch on record-breaking solar farm

New figures suggest one million homes will have solar generating capacity in Australia by next summer

10 Oct 2012

Sumitomo takes 25 per cent stake in giant US solar project

Japanese company buys into First Solar's 550MW Desert Sunlight development, diluting GE's share

03 Oct 2012

Davey: 20 new gas power plants in the pipeline for the UK

As GE unveils new gas turbines designed to better support renewables on the grid, Energy Secretary says raft of new gas plants are on their way

28 Sep 2012

National Grid: UK could be free of energy imports by 2020s

Scenario planning says country can become an energy exporter by meeting climate targets and increasing electricity links with other countries

27 Sep 2012

Study finds waste-fuelled nuclear reactor "feasible" for UK

Report by developer GE Hitachi says technology could deal with country's nuclear waste stockpile cost-effectively

10 Jul 2012

GE and Ford leading US climate adaptation efforts

Conglomerate tops ranking of 360 companies based on climate management and clean tech innovation

23 Apr 2012

GE Hitachi brings in nuclear waste experts to aid Sellafield push

Project to build a plant that reuses UK's stores of plutonium waste moves closer after US giant signs agreement with national lab

04 Apr 2012

Wind energy giants throw support behind new industry charter

RenewableUK's wind energy charter aims to highlight benefits brought to UK by booming renewables sector

04 Apr 2012

GE solar investments top $1.4bn in the last year

Company takes $100m stake in Arizona plant, as Abound Solar sheds jobs and Warren Buffett lines up second Topaz funding round

01 Mar 2012

GE and Carbon Trust launch $5m low carbon infrastructure fund

Partnership aims to accelerate "early stage" technology companies on road to commercialisation

20 Feb 2012

GE warns of green Olympics awareness gap

Survey reveals vast majority of people do not think Olympic Games will have a lasting impact on sustainable cities

30 Jan 2012

Plans for Sellafield plutonium reactor rejected

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority sees technology as immature and commercially unproven, internal emails reveal

25 Jan 2012

Obama inks $4bn energy efficiency drive with blue chips

GE, Nissan and Citi among 60 organisations signed up to Better Building programme

02 Dec 2011

GE touts hybrid gas, solar and wind power plant as answer to energy crisis

Turkish energy ministry also approves plans for GE to nearly double size of world’s first Integrated Renewables Combined-Cycle plant

22 Nov 2011

 Video The future of renewable energy: BusinessGreen briefing

GE Energy's Magued Eldaief outlines the challenges and opportunities facing green businesses over the coming decades

11 Nov 2011

GE takes aim at First Solar with "more efficient" thin film panels

Conglomerate says panels converting 14 per cent of sunlight into electricity will be produced from 2013

17 Oct 2011

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