As a Major Architect of Smart Grid Solutions Around the World, GE Applauds the SmartGridIreland Announcement

LONDON, December 9 - "The Centre for Competitiveness working with the GridWise Alliance will
be a positive force in demonstrating smart grid as an economic and
environmental imperative for the future of energy generation and distribution
in Northern Ireland," said Ricardo Cordoba, President of GE Energy for
Western Europe & North Africa.

"The holistic smart grid solutions deliver synergistic reliability,
efficiency and clean-energy technologies across the electrical network. As a
result, consumers will have the power to manage and control their energy use,
and we can add more clean energy sources to the generation mix-all while
creating high value, green-collar jobs."

This SmartGridIreland approach tracks closely with GE's smart grid vision
that has been honed by decades of research and a century of real-world
experience focused on continually improving how power is generated, delivered
and consumed.

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