It has, however, attracted some heavyweight partners, including GE Energy and Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
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Bigger guns like Goldman Sachs and General Electric 's GE Energy Financial Services have done some renewable energy financing as well, primarily of wind farms.
While Adam's father Peter Lanza, a tax director and vice president for GE Energy Financial Services, was outgoing, Nancy could be "unsociable, " Mary Ann Lanza said.
"GE is playing a leadership role in the transformation to smarter transportation solutions and a smarter electrical grid, " said Luis Ramirez, CEO, GE Energy Industrial Solutions.
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Peter Lanza is tax director and vice president of taxes for GE Energy Financial Services in the New York City area, according to his resume posted on the website LinkedIn.
Acciona Energia, Clipper Windpower and Siemens USA now operate wind manufacturing facilities in the state, and last month Culver's office announced that TPI Composites will open a plant in Iowa to build turbine blades for GE Energy.
Among the new gizmos and gadgets showcased by GE were a slew of energy-efficient smart appliances, the GE Energy Smart LED, an advanced small wind turbine, and an Yves Behar-designed home electric vehicle charging dock called the GE WattStation.
Just last week, GE Energy (NYSE:GE) laid off workers and put expansion plans at their Colorado factory on hold for at least 18 months while they try to improve the Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin film solar technology they plan to produce there.
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Competitor GE Wind Energy, a unit of General Electric, ranked number one in wind turbines sales in the U.S. in 2009, according to a recent report from the American Wind Energy Association.
In November, GE opened the Kaluga Energy Technology Center to service GE power generation equipment installed in Russia.
In May, GE and Chesapeake Energy announced plans to build about 250 natural gas stations near existing pipelines.
Daniel Roderick, senior vice president of GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, a joint venture between General Electric and Japan's Hitachi, told Bloomberg the company is looking to secure contracts to deliver reactor technology, nuclear services, and nuclear fuel cycle services to Saudi Arabia.
That's partly due to the development of the capital markets over the past decade in places like India and Latin America, making it easier for a company to make long-term investments in those areas, says Colleen Harkness, a managing director with GE's Energy Financial Services unit.
Wind and solar as a source of renewable energy is a goal that most electric-generating companies, including General Electric (GE), Duke Energy (DUK), and Northwestern Energy (NEW), are hotly pursuing.
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Urban Green Energy and GE plan to sell the system to commercial and government customers.
GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy, has been active in India since 2008 when the U.S. and India signed a pact on nonmilitary nuclear cooperation.
"The mode we're in right now is to understand what's happening, " said James Klapproth, a chief engineer at GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Inc.
The GE team began its energy treasure hunt at Weidmann by shutting down everything at the factory and searching for things like lights unnecessarily left on, compressed air leaks and running water.
Only a few weeks ago, a New York Times report noted that GE, one of the largest U.S. corporations, paid no income taxes, sparking a public outcry. (Read Pre-Crisis Dynamic At GE As Financial Arm Overtakes Energy).
This gap in energy consumption between developed and developing economies will continue to drive growth in the global energy sector and GE by virtue of its strong presence in this sector will continue to benefit from this growth.
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Receiving the most buzz however seemed to be the GE Nucleus, a home energy monitoring system that uses Brillion Technology to work with smart meters and help homeowners manage electricity consumption (and eventually water, natural gas, and renewable energy consumption after software upgrades).
Little also pointed out that GE has significant experience in wind energy, solar, and in nuclear power.
Just this week, GE announced the release of the Energy Smart LED, a new omni-directional, 9-watt bulb designed to replace the common 40-watt incandescent bulb used in bedside and table lamps.
BARCELONA, SPAIN - August 14, 2012 - Urban Green Energy (UGE) and GE (NYSE: GE) have unveiled the world's first integrated wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.
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On its second quarter call, GE announced its plans to streamline its energy group by dividing it into three distinct activities and eliminating a complete layer of management at the top.
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But Obamanomics, from the new and expanded tax credits of the 2009 stimulus, to the green energy tax loopholes that left GE paying no income taxes on billions in corporate profits, to the proposed new tax credits of the Jobs Plan, to the 2013 tax rate increases, involves just the opposite, creating numerous new tax loopholes in return for higher tax rates.
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's (nyse: GE - news - people ) Energy Financial Services arm, also provide some financing for solar projects.
Additionally, increasing revenues in the energy infrastructure division have also helped GE to partially offset the impact of the financial crisis on its largest division, GE Capital.
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Knowledge sharing led to extremely successful business opportunities for companies like GE and construction company Cemex (in green energy and building materials directed toward the bottom of the period in Latin America, respectively).
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With support for a wide array of input and output options and a large number of protocols available in the industry including IEC 61850, DNP3.0, and IEC60870-5-104, GE has the ability to connect and integrate your power system equipment with virtually any HMI, SCADA or Energy Management System with the security, reliability and dependability you expect from GE.
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