GE brings ecomagination to India

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General Electric Company (GE) today announced the launch of the company's innovative ecomagination initiative in India -- designed to bring to market new technologies that will help customers address their most pressing environmental challenges such as the need for cleaner, more efficient sources of energy, reduced emissions and abundant sources of clean water.

 

The ecomagination initiative was launched in New Delhi by John Rice, GE Vice Chairman and President  & CEO,GE Infrastructure and Lorraine Bolsinger, Vice President, Ecomagination in the presence of Mr. Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister for Science and Technology, Government of India.

 

On the occasion, the company signed a MoU with Air India that will help the airline achieve its goal of becoming an environmentally sustainable airline, with sound environmental programs and practices. This first-of-its-kind partnership with Air-India will see GE delivering aircraft engines from its ecomagination portfolio including GE90-115B engines for the Boeing 777-300ERs and the GEnx engines for the Boeing 787-800 aircraft ordered by Air India. The value of these orders from Air India is over $2.2 billion. Beyond aircraft engines, to help Air India position itself as an environment friendly airline, GE will partner in other areas such as - green building, in flight content creation, co-branding etc.

 

GE also announced the signing of a MoU for a Green Building Project with Haryana Technology Park. The Haryana Technology Park is a Government of India approved integrated IT Park supported by Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park, New Delhi. Under the MoU, GE India and Haryana Technology Park will collaborate in a number of initiatives to create a truly green building project of world standards specifically in the areas of utility services like power generation & distribution, lighting, water treatment, security, sensing equipment and other environmentally friendly solutions.

 

Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister for Science and Technology, Government of India said, "We have been harnessing mother nature for far too long. The more we consume nature's vital and valuable resources for temporary gain, the harder it gets for us to combat the consequences of the resultant phenomenon.  Ecomagination is an initiative whose time has come, an initiative that will enable the business community to move away from the trodden path onto a new road of discovery and invention through the use of environment-friendly technologies. I commend GE for taking this initiative and hope others will follow." 

 

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