On World Water Day, GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company, held an open panel discussion at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York to discuss and explore key issues, challenges, and solutions critical in addressing the world's growing water scarcity crisis.

First Choice Airways has purchased an additional four Boeing 787 Dreamliners, powered by the fast-selling GEnx engine-taking total GEnx orders to 830 for 28 customers, with a list price value of more than $10 billion.

GE Healthcare Financial Services continues to enhance its position in the senior housing market by structuring a $160 million senior-secured, 10-year first mortgage for Wakefield Capital, a Maryland based investor in senior housing properties.

The General Electric Company today announced it is accelerating its solar energy research program with the help of an $8.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of President Bush's Solar America Initiative.

GE Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company today announced its upcoming World Water Tour, a series of seminars, which will bring water industry experts and industrial water users together to discuss best practices and solutions capable of meeting industry's growing need to minimize operational costs, create sustainable supplies of quality water, decrease energy consumption and meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements

GE and mtvU, MTV's 24-hour college network, today greenlighted the winning student-developed project in the first-ever mtvU GE ecomagination Challenge: Biodiesel@MIT, a first-of-its-kind, solar-powered refueling station and processor to convert waste vegetable oil to biodiesel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.