GE Energy Storage is in Barcelona this week for GSMA’s Mobile World Congress.  You might be wondering what an energy storage business is doing at the same trade show as companies like Samsung and Nokia.  The shiny, advanced products that many companies launch at the Mobile World Congress require reliable networks in order to actually use for communication.  In many rural and developing areas of the world, an unreliable grid and extreme temperatures may affect the performance of cell towers.

That’s where GE Energy Storage and Durathon Batteries come to the rescue.  Our telecom product enables fuel savings and reliable power availability for cell tower operators. We power the cell towers that are the foundation of mobile communications and what GSMA dubbed “the mobile economy.”

Belgian publications such as L'Echo and Le Vif L'Express recently ran articles highlighting GE Transportation's entrance the European locomotive market with a new product, the Euroloco!

The Euroloco's service will be launched between Belgium and Germany by Heavy Haul Power International (HHPI). This locomotive will pull freight trains that will draw more than 7,000 convoy tons. "It is a diesel locomotive of a new generation, which has a towing capacity 25% higher than what currently exist," GE Transportation CEO Lorenzo Simonelli said.

Read more about about the Euroloco in Le Vif L'Express here.

With 10,000 sensors spread throughout its manufacturing facility, GE Energy Storage can track virtually every aspect of production using a high-speed, internal Ethernet network.  It’s all part of GE’s plan to invest $1.5 billion company wide to maximize efficiency and manufacturing performance by connecting proprietary software to the larger internet.  Recently, MIT’s Technology Review took a closer look.

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GE Transportation, Locorail and Yakutia Railways in Russia announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the possibility of forming a strategic relationship to modernize diesel electric locomotives.  The MOU creates a framework by which Yakutia Railways, under GE license, will modernize diesel electric locomotives at Yakutia Railways facility in Aldan, Russia utilizing GE FDL engine kits manufactured at GE Transportation facilities in Erie and Grove City, PA. USA.  Under the agreement's framework, GE Transportation will supply a minimum of 20 FDL engine kits per year over five years.

GE Transportation will work with Locorail and Yakutia Railways to provide expert service training to maintain and overhaul the modernized FDL engines. GE Transportation will provide support to address specific improvements that include tooling and equipment at the Yakutia Railways facility in order to provide maximum availability of GE modernized diesel-electric locomotives in the Locorail and Yakutia Railway fleet.

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