Archives with Category : Powering

26 April 2013 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Celebrate your 50th in Style

Guest post by Milan Šlapák, Commercial Director at GE Aviation Czech

As our readers know the Prague-Letnany based company is the only place outside the US where GE Aviation develops aircraft engines and H80 is the first turboprop engine in the history of GE Aviation that has been designed and manufactured outside the United States. The 50th engine is now heading to American Trush Co., a light agricultural aircrafts producer. Thrush´ s 510G agricultural aircraft is the first aircraft to enter service with the H80 engine.

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24 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Foundations for Energy

Guest post by Alexander Silin, General Manager Sales - Europe -Thermal Products - GE Power & Water

CEE’s energy landscape is changing fast and that is not only a figure of speech: new power plants are appearing across the region as the industry strives to shift gear. At the end of last year, construction started of PGNiG and Tauron’s heat and power plant in Stalowa Wola and only last week I was in Wloclawek at the launch of another landmark project that will change Poland’s energy landscape for good and for the better. Both projects deploy GE’s advanced technologies.

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19 April 2013 Posted by Zbigniew Mularczyk

Making it personal: GE Quests

Guest post by Paweł Jankiewicz, Second-place finisher of GE Flight Quest

“A monkey hitting keys at random for infinite amount of time will surely type a given text such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.” Now imagine a few hundred data scientists hitting keys not at random for 4 months trying to beat industry in flight delay predictions. Four months ago GE in the cooperation with Kaggle started one of the most exciting data mining competitions in a long time, Flight.This competition was also my private quest.

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18 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Move in the Right Direction?

Guest post by Bartosz Wojszczyk, Managing Director, Global Growth and Strategy, GE Digital Energy

We are just a day away from one of the most interesting energy-related events in the Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw will host the 9^th Annual CEE Energy Conference 19-20 March, where over 150 senior level representatives from incumbent and private utilities, international investors and financiers, consultants and advisors, leading law firms and many more industry experts will discuss the most important issues facing the development of the energy market in Central and Eastern Europe. The participants will discuss among others market trends, current and future market needs as well as financing systems and the latest developments of renewable projects - the potential of PV Solar and Wind. GE will contribute to the discussion, and I will be at the event, giving you exclusive updates.

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15 March 2013 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Rising Star in the Russian Sky

Guest post by Milan Šlapák, Commercial Director at GE Aviation, Turboprops

”I am really pleased that Czech – Russian cooperation in aviation is growing dynamically and the number of Czech aircraft in the Russian sky is growing,” said I. D. Irinich, General Director Deputy of the 2^nd Arkhangelsk Aviation Company, one of GE Aviation’s customers in Russia, at the very first Russian Customer Advisory Board meeting. The meeting was held by GE Aviation in Moscow recently and was a great opportunity for us to talk to our customers from different parts of the country and beyond, as they came from Yakutsk, Kamchatka, Moscow, Yaroslavl, Archangelsk, Kazakhstan and other places. The opening speech of Jan Krs, Head of Economic Section at the Czech Embassy in Moscow, emphasized the close cooperation between Russia and the Czech Republic.

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11 March 2013 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Sub of the Tops

Guest post by Marian Lubieniecki, EDC Oil&Gas Manager

A company cannot function properly without qualified employees. No innovation can be introduced and no development can be made if people don’t want it or simply don’t understand it. That is why a good, well-qualified team is so important for every company. And here is the place for cooperation between business and science. According to the GE Innovation Barometer 2013 for Poland, only 31% of the Polish businesses claim that universities and schools provide a strong education for tomorrow’s innovative leaders, and 66% executives point out that students curricula should be align better with the needs of businesses. But business should not only demand from universities better curricula’s adjustment, but also support them and clearly say what they need.

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4 March 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Top Ten 2013 Predictions for the Utility Industry

Guest post by Milan Kalal, Lead analyst for the IDC Energy Insights program in Central and Eastern Europe

IDC Energy Insights revealed its 2013 top ten predictions for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) utility industry in a complimentary Web conference on December 12, 2012. Attended live by over 100 utilities and vendors, the Web conference highlighted key trends and developments that will impact EMEA utilities' business and technology investment decisions in 2013 and beyond. Let me share with you a brief recap of the Webcast.

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1 March 2013 Posted by Gaetano Massara

Hot Wind

Guest post by Zeljko Pantic, the CEO of Danas Conference Center

Serbia could receive over €700 in investments into wind parks alone in the next few years, developments which would mean Serbia no longer needs to import power during the winter. The Ministry for Energy recently fired the starting gun in the race to develop Serbia’s energy independence, a competition that is attracting major players from both East and West. The question is whether those that currently profit from Serbia’s energy dependence will sit on the sidelines of the competition.

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25 February 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

High Speed for Kazakhstan

Guest post by Jaromír Šilhánek, General Manager, ŠKODA ELECTRIC

Kazakhstan's railway system plays a huge part in its developing economy as both China and Russia depend on Kazakhstan's locomotives for transportation and international trade routes. Škoda Electric is taking part in an important project carried out by GE, delivering drives for 110 locomotives that will be used for passenger transport by the Kazakhstan national railway company (Kazakhstan Temir Zholy - KTZ), facing harsh weather conditions and challenging altitudes.

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22 February 2013 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Fly Avio

GE recently announced an agreement to purchase of the aviation business of Avio S.p.A., an Italy-based manufacturer of aviation propulsion components and systems for civil and military aircraft. GE plans to pursue new opportunities for Avio in power-generation, oil, and marine products.

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