The GE Brief: December 11, 2023

Best Defense

Last weekend at the 10th annual Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California, GE Chairman and CEO and GE航空 CEO Larry Culp spoke about how GE Aerospace, which powers around two-thirds of U.S. military aircraft today, is innovating to meet the challenges of 21st-century military aviation. “Day to day, we’re right there with all of our military customers, assuring readiness while we invest in next-generation platforms,” he said. Read more about the forum here .

A New Dawn for Arabia

It’s week two at the U.N.’s Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the UAE, and we’ve put the spotlight on the energy transition now underway in neighboring Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has begun shifting toward a more diversified energy portfolio, with new developments like the construction of the region’s largest solar plant. And to lower emissions in the electricity sector, GE Vernova has collaborated with Alfanar Projects and the Saudi Electricity Company to transition a large fleet of GE Vernova’s 7E turbines to run on natural gas instead of liquid fuels at one of the largest power stations in the world. Read the story.

Flight Path to Net Zero

From sustainable aviation fuel to the RISE program to hybrid electric technologies, GE航空 has made impressive strides in 2023 toward the aviation industry’s emission reduction targets. See our list of stories from this year, and check out the infographic below.?

Sustainability Efforts: By the Numbers

— Quote of the Day —

“In terms of engineering the next jet engine, we’re doing things today that we clearly couldn’t do a decade ago … We’re creating the capability to not only drive those advanced, more flexible designs but also to be able to put them into production more quickly.”?— Larry Culp , chairman and CEO of GE and CEO of GE航空