GE Energy Sponsor Spotlight - Tour de Georgia 2010

More people worldwide turn to GE Energy for advanced power systems and around-the-clock energy services than any other company. We installed our first steam turbine in 1901, and our installed base of steam turbines and heavy duty gas turbines has grown to more than 10,000 units, representing over a million megawatts of installed capacity in more than 120 countries...or enough power for approximately one billion households.

Responding to the world's growing need for cleaner sources of energy, GE has launched ecomagination, a corporate-wide initiative to help customers meet their environmental responsibilities. Ecomagination puts into practice GE's belief that financial and environmental performance can work together to drive company growth, while taking on some of the world's biggest challenges.

GE's wind and solar power technologies are key components of ecomagination. With more than 8,400 wind and 3,600 hydro turbines installed worldwide, GE technology has added more than 162,000 megawatts to the world's cleaner energy capacity.

GE works closely with customers to achieve mutual growth and success. We work in tandem with governments and communities to manager complex international relationships and develop critical infrastructures. We also work intimately with suppliers, enabling them to become extended GE factories and platforms for accelerated globalization. Through these powerful partnerships, we create innovative products and technologies that serve the world's people.

From the beginning, GE research and development efforts have focused on products and services with the customer in mind. Thomas Edison's words have remained a part of GE's tradition of constant innovation:

"I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it would give others." -- Thomas Alva Edison, GE founder