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GE to expand its renewable energy business

By Michelle Froese | January 30, 2019

GE announced that it intends to intensify its focus on the growing renewable energy market by consolidating all of the company’s renewable and grid assets into a single, simplified Renewable Energy business.

One way GE says it will amp up its focus on renewables is by streamlining its Onshore Wind business structure, eliminating its headquarters layer and elevating its current
regional teams.

Global demand for renewable power generation and the associated grid integration continues to increase globally. In fact, the latest report from the International Energy Agency showed that renewable capacity additions of 178 GW accounted for more than two-thirds of global net electricity capacity growth in 2017.

“This strategic realignment positions GE to lead in the fast-growing renewable energy market,” said GE Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. “This move will help our Renewable Energy teams to better support their customers in leading the energy transition by simplifying the way they can access innovative products, integrated solutions, and services that reflect the evolution of the clean energy marketplace.”

The proposed moves announced today are part of a broader effort on the part of GE to position the company to meet the evolving needs of the power market, including the growth of renewable energy.

These moves include:

  • Moving GE’s grid solutions and hybrid renewables (including solar and storage systems) technologies into the GE Renewable Energy Business, complementing its existing onshore wind, offshore wind, LM Windpower, and hydro offerings.
  • Complementing all offerings with digitally enabled services
  • Streamlining its Onshore Wind structure, eliminating its headquarters layer and elevating its current regional teams  Americas, Europe/Africa, MENAT and APAC — to improve competitiveness, speed, customer focus, and local execution in the Onshore Wind business.

These moves will enable GE Renewable Energy to drive more local and integrated solutions, simplify its structure, and improve performance, according to the company. The business will be capable of supporting customers from project development, to equipment and services, to full turnkey solutions. It will have the most diverse and broadest renewable portfolios in the industry, enabling customers to bring green electrons to the grid or to power their operations.

“With the unique diversity and scale of this portfolio and the combination of expertise, technology, and local reach, we will create enhanced value for all our customers seeking to power the world with affordable, reliable green electrons,” said GE Renewable Energy CEO Jerome Pecresse. “Our team is excited by the possibilities this new structure creates to help us lead the energy transition for GE.”

The expanded Renewable Energy is part of GE’s energy related portfolio, which also includes the newly created Gas Power business and GE’s Power portfolio which operates Steam, Nuclear, and Power Conversion.


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