Technology services company GE has announced that it has reduced its own greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity and is making progress against its other goals for revenue growth, water and technology innovation.
The US-based company made a commitment in 2005 to reduce GHG intensity sequentially in the years 2008, 2010 and 2012. The 2008 figure of 30% was surpassed by 11%. GE also reduced absolute GHG emissions 13% and improved its energy efficiency 37% since 2005, keeping on track to meet its 2012 operational commitments in these areas.
“If we are proposing that customers around the world use GE solutions to reduce their emissions, then we should do the same,” Steve Fludder, vice president and leader of ecomagination at GE said.
“We set our first ecomagination goal to achieve at least a 30% reduction in our own GHG intensity for 2008 in order to show our progress, before our 2010 target on revenues from ecomagination sales to our customers,” he added.
GE was able to achieve its first GHG-related commitment by migrating to less GHG-intensive fuels, utilization of GE’s own ecomagination technology such as solar panels, advanced lighting products and Jenbacher engines, improving the energy efficiency of its production operations, and integrating GHG as a facility management objective.
