Could GE's new start-up Current have the power to transform the energy market?

Madeleine Cuff
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BusinessGreen catches up with Pete Lau, the newly-appointed Europe and Middle East chief executive of GE start-up Current, to find out how the fledgling company plans to capture the energy service market

Late last year, GE quietly made a very big bet on the future of the energy market. The wager was on Current, a new energy efficiency start-up launched by the engineering goliath in October which promises...

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