General Electric: Wind Turbine
GE is helping China meet its growing demand for cleaner energy. Here, its turbines are installed at the Shangyi Manjing Wind Farm located near Beijing in Hebei province. This location will be one of the largest wind farms in the country when all 215 towers are running. Energy from the Shangyi site helped supply power to the 2008 Olympic Games. When the project is completed later this year, it should be able to supply 600,000 average Chinese homes with energy. Wind is just one part of GE Ecomagination, the company wide initiative in sustainable technology. Sales of goods with the Ecomagination tag—typically given to the most energy-efficient products in each category—make up about 9% of total sales globally. Yet in China, Ecomagination sales accounted for 17% of GE's $4.6 billion total last year.
